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Early Settlement, 
liater Conditions. 
Relations With Vermont 






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Liittleton of To-day. 
Biographical Sketches. 
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Littleton, N. H., Friday, Decemuer 24, 1897. 



No. 16. 



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ISTORICAL INTRODUCTION. 



The town is the natural unit of Xew 
England political institutions. No- 
where else on this planet is the idea of 
pure democracy, of government of the 
people, for the people and bj' the peo- 
ple, so fully realized and attained, hence 
the study of the origin and formation 
of those institutions logically begins in 
the history of the town. Here we can 
best trace the 
formative influ- 
ences of heredi- 
ty, and of social 
and physical en- 
vironment ti>at, 
in the course of 
time, have crys- I 
talized into char- j 
acter, a character 
at once so per- 
vasive and com- 
municative that 
it has leavened 
the whole mass 
of alien and com- 
posite citizenship 
and shaped and 
dominated the 
destinies of the 
nation. The gaze 
of the typical 
A m eric a_n i s 
steadily forward. 

His mood is that of forecast ratli- 
er than retrospect, and his motto 
is "Time past is gone for ages beyond 
recall ; the future is not mine and may 
not be ; the living present is the time 
for me." It is a busy and fast age, and 
yet our fast express trains sometimes 
stop "thirty minutes for refreshments." 
Perhaps from the historic part of Lit- 
tleton we can ga.in some lessons that 
will help us in the tasks of the present, 



and enable us to reach our future goal 
more surely. We propose to write a 
sketch of the town of Littleton, as com- 
plete as the limits of time and space 
will permit, and as faithful and realis- 
tic as our limited opportunities and 
ability can furnish. We shall not hunt 
for missing links of microscopic size, 
nor trace family genealogy through sev- 
en generations. The business man and 
the student of today are busy men, not 



the progress of the town. A town is 
largely the product of its citizens, and 
in representing the Littleton of today 
we shall present snap-shot sketches of 
representative men in all the various 
walks of life. 




THE FIRST TOWN BUILDING-From nn Old Dr.i\vinK. 

antiquarians, and liave not the time to 
dissect the mass of immaterial facts of 
early biography and history, but may 
be interested in the salient and outline 
features, freshly presented in the col- 
umns of their favorite ])a])er. Such an 
article, while not aspiring to the dig- 
nity and completeness of the forth- 
coming town history of Littleton, may 
yet contain many representative facts 
that serve to illustrate the times, and 



CARLY SETTLEMENT. 

One of the most essential requisites 
to the prosperity of early settlers is a 
clear title and 
undisturbed pos- 
session of their 
lands. The ear- 
ly pioneers of 
t Littleton did not 
possess this as- 
surance. The 
land which form- 
ed the present 
town, like near- 
ly all the north- 
ern New Hamp- 
shire and Ver- 
mont towns, was 
originally grant- 
ed by Governor 
Benning Went- 
worth, of New 
Hampshire, un- 
der authorltj' of 
KingGeorge III, 
and subject to 
very interesting 
and important conditions, non-compli- 
ance with which resulted, by the terms 
of the charter, in the forfeiture of the 
land and reversion to the crown. The 
history of this great real estate enter- 
prise, which involved momentous pol- 
itical interests and the destiny of states, 
has never been adequately written. It 
was the policy of King George and his 
ministers, in connection with their sys- 
tem of colonial taxation, to adopt a 




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general i)lan of laml donation to actual 
settlers, which would disperse the rath- 
er rebellious citizens of the large towns 
of the older settlements, and at the 
same time attach them to the throne 
by ties of gratitude and self interest. 
Governor Wentworth was the favored 
agent to conduct that fruitful scheme, 
and that thrifty patriot, realizing that 
"charity begins at home" reserved for 
liiinself five hundred acres bordering 
on the Connecticut in each of the river 
townships, besides certain cash perqui- 
sites and ample allowances for his 



tains, ponds and rivers, but many of 
them, in fact, exceeded these limits. 
The fiist towns granted in this section 
were Haverhill, N. H., and Newbury, 
Vt., in 17(;i, known as the Lower 
Cohos, ("Cohos" was the Indian word 
for crooked, and referred to the course 
of the river at the Ox Bow Meadows). 
Chiswick was granted to James Avery, 
of Connecticut, and his associates, Jan- 
uary 31, 1767. TJie conditions of the 
original charter are of historic interest. 
One provision was that as soon as fifty 
families slidiild be I'csident and settled 



the royal navy be preserved ; that a 
tract of land in the center of the town- 
ship be reserved and marked out for 
town lots, each grantee to have one of 
one acre in size. One ear of corn 
and one shilling for each one hundred 
acres of land were to be paid on the 
'25th of each December as rent by the 
gi-antees, but these, like other terms of 
the grant, were not lived up to, and the 
charter of Chiswick was declared for- 
feited for non-settlement. Benning 
Wentworth was succeeded as govei'nor 
by his ncpliew, Joliti W. WentWDrlli, 




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friends. The township of Chiswick, 
as it was then called, was a sort of 
" Hobson's choice," a tract of land 
sandwiched in between earlier and 
more favored townships above, and be- 
low, and containing a large proportion 
of broken and stony ground covered 
with a dense growth of pine, it was re- 
garded with disfavor. These town- 
ships were six miles square, containing 
23,000 acres, with an allowance of 106<i 
acres free, for highwaj's and lands un- 
improvable because of rocks, nioun- 



MAIN STRKET. LOOKING EAST 

in town, they should have the piivilege 
of holding two fairs each year, also that 
"a market may be opened and kept 
open one or more days in each week, 
as may be thought most advantageous 
to the inh.abitants." These privileges 
were incontinently slighted, but others 
not expressed in the charter were util- 
ized. The charter demanded that each 
grantee jdant and cultivate, within five 
years, five acres for every fifty con- 
tained in his share, on penalty of for- 
feiture ; that all trees fit for masting 



who was not reluctiuit to grant requests 
for a new charter, more ready, perhaps, 
because of the liberal fees attached. 
Col. Moses Little, of Newbury; Gen. 
Israel Morey, of Orford, and Alexander 
Pheli)s purchased of John Avery, the 
princijial grantee under the Cliiswick 
charter, forty-two of the Chiswick 
claims for a nominal sum. They ap- 
plied to Col. John llurd, special friend 
of the governor, to aid them in jirocur- 
insr a renewal of the Chiswick charter. 
A new charter was granted, covering 



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mainly the old giouiul aiul 10,UUO aorcs 
which had formerly, by mistake, been 
granted to Lancaster. Col. John Hiud 
at once received the title to the 10,000 
acres as his share of this ground floor 
speculation. The new town wa.s named 
Apthorp, for George Apthorp, a Lon- 
don merchant, one of the grantees, and 
the charter was dated January, 1770. 
The proprietors of Apthorp, more en- 
terprising than their predecessors, soon 
prevailed on Nathan Caswell, tlie first 
settler, to hazard his fortunes in ihe 
Ammonoosuc wilderness. With his 



ily floated down the river to the fort 
at Salmon Hole. Caswell returned a 
few d;iys later to find the birn burned 
by Indians. A log hut was built, where 
they made their home for ten or twelve 
years. The distuibcil conditions dur- 
ing the Revolution hindered the settle- 
ment of the town, and as late as 1784 
there were but eight families and twelve 
voters in Apthorp. There is reason to 
believe that this was one of the sixteen 
New Ilarnpsliire towns that were rep- 
resented in the legislature of Vermont. 
The record made by these pioneers in 



race, Robert Churlton and James Ran- 
kin. 



I ITTLETON. 

In 1788, Trustam l^alton and Na- 
thaniel Tracey ac(]uired the 10,000 
acres of Col. Hurd, and petitioned to 
have this, with 6,000 acres obtained 
from Moses Little, erected into a new 
town. In November, 1784, the towns 
of Littleton and D ill on were created, 
and each named for its leading propri- 
etor. The town grew sturdily and 





wife and four children, he left his 
home at Orford, April 9, 1770, with all 
of his household gooils on the back 
of one horse. He passed the first night 
at Bath, where be left the horse, and 
at dusk on the second day arrived at 
his destination, a rude baiii built by 
the Chiswick proprietors. That night 
another son was born to these sturdy 
pioneers, and he was named Apthorp, 
as the first-born of the new settlement. 
But Indian signs were too plenty, and 
hastily constructing a dug-out the fam- 



MAIN STREET. LOOKING WEST 

the struggle for independence is re- 
markable. We find the infant settle- 
ment, with but three men sul)ject to 
military duty, sending to the front with 
them five boys, who served through the 
weary contest with credit. Space for- 
bids more than a mere reference to 
these brave pioneers. Prominent 
among them were Jonathan Hopkinsoii 
and his four sons, Capt. Caswell and 
liis sons, and Capt. Pelig Williams. 
Other prominent pioneers were Thom- 
as Miner, ])rogenitor of a numerous 



steadily. Slowly, and with infinite 
toil the stalwart pioneers hewed down 
the giant pines, let in the sunlight on 
the virgin soil, and wrung from their 
stumpy and stony fields a scanty sub- 
sistence. Of money there was almost 
none, and no way of obtaining it, for 
there were no passable roads by which 
the crude products of the soil could be 
transported to the southern markets. 
Of the urgent needs of the case, we 
may cite the statement of the town 
agent, Capt. Pelig Williams, in his pe- 



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tition to the Icgislaturo. He says: 
"Although it is eighteen years since the 
town began to settle, there is but nine 
families in it at this time, and there are 
no mills in said town, nor can we get 
at any under fifteen miles. The jiub- 
lick road that runs through said town 
is eleven miles in length, 
and almost impossible to 
pass in the same, which 
road your petitioners have 
to travel to get to mill, to 
market, to courts, and to al- 
most every kind of busi- 
ness, so that your petition- 
ers have got under such 
poor and difficult circum- 
stances, that we can neither 
live in the said town nor 
move out of the same, ex- 
cept your honors will inter- 
pose in our behalf." The 
town was authorized to tax 
non-residents for the pur- 
pose., and a road was built 
by a committee, from Dalton 
down the Ammonoosuc val- 
ley to the town line, and another was 
constructed from near fabyan's to 
connect with the first. 

Those primeval necessities, a grist 
mill and saw mill, were first located in 
1787-8 by Jonathan Eastman, on Kan- 
kin's brook, near the present site of 
the saw mill and grist mill at Patten- 
ville. They were soon purchased by 
James Rankin, a thrifty Scotchman, 
and later successfully operated nearly 
half a century by his son. Gen. David 
Rankin. The second saw mill was lo- 
cated at North Littleton, and. the third 
near the present mill of the Littleton 
Lumber Co. The second grist mill, 
and the one which has been the main 
reliance of the town for almost a cen- 
tury, was built by Solomon Mann, in 
1799. It has been renovated and re- 
paired until very little is left of the 
original mill, and is now operated by 
James Brown. 



can only offer a few dull generalities 
to cover a long period of the later his- 
tory. After the location of good roads 
and mills, the nineteenth century ush- 
ered in a great influx of popiilatioii, 
and a steady expansion of agriculture, 
trade and manufactures. The nianu- 




THE LITTLETON CREAMERY. 

facture of lumber and the clearing up 
of farms were the prominent features 
during the first half of the century. 
Since that ])eriod the lumber business 
has been continued with much greater 
profit by reason of railroad facilities, 
and to this has been added some very 
important specialized manufactures 



The cultivation of the soil has, from 
the earliest times, been the leading 
avocation in Littleton. Nature was 
not especially lavish in her agrictdtural 
gifts. While there is a fine belt of 
Ammonoosuc meadows, the Connecti- 
cut affords comparatively little first- 
rate meadow, and the larger 
portion of the hill land is 
rather stony and not very 
productive. Yet there are 
many good grass farms in 
town, and the farmers have 
always enjoyed a very su- 
perior local market at the 
village for all kinds of farm 
produce. Successive gener- 
ations have cleaned the 
stones from the fields, to 
admit of the use of machin- 
ery. Less help is required 
than formerly to conduct the 
farms, and better teams, 
tools and dwellings, more 
leisure for books, papers 
and music, and better social 
conditions are the order of 
the day. Under the stimulus of a good 
local market, dairying under improved 
conditions is rapidly coming to the 
front. 



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ELATIONS WITH VERMONT. 





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ATER CONDITIONS. 



Having outlined as fully as space 
would permit the more interesting 
features of the earliest settlement, we 



NEW TOWN BUILDING, 
such as the iiroductioii of scythes, car- 
riages and sleighs, slereosco])ic views, 
the Saranac gloves, shoes, and the usu- 
al local enterjirises of a New England 
village. 



The settlement of neighboring com- 
munities on both sides of the Connec- 
ticut river was so nearly contempor- 
aneous, their relations so intimate and 
interdependent, that it seems highly 
appropriate to bestow a paragraph on 
this topic. Thetford and Lyme, Fair- 
lee and Orford, Newbury and Haver- 
hill, Littleton, Waterford and Concord 
have always been connected by the 
most interesting and important associ- 
ations of kinship and lousiness relations. 
The land grants of Gov. Benning Weut- 
worth constituted the legal tenure on 
which the earlier pioneers of Vermont, 
(earlier called New Hampshire Grants), 
relied for the possession of their lands, 
and in the defense of those titles against 
the counter claims set up by New 
York, the Green Mountain Boys con- 
tributed the most romantic and heroic 
page of the Revolutionary era. After 



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the close of the old French war, the 
rich agricultural lands among the 
Green Mountains were rapidly settled 
by the choicest and most adventurous 
spirits from the southern communities 
of New England, and this Norseman 
spirit of adventure was continually re- 
inforced by the necessity of a constant 
and vigilant defense of their homes 
against the adverse claimants from 
New York, as well as the common foes, 
the British and Indians. Neighboring 
towns on both sides of the Connecticut 



tunes in this more prugrcssive town. 
Nearly one half of the active business 
men of Littleton today are Vermonters 
or sons of Vermonters, and a large 
share of the business and professional 
men of the past seventy-five years 
came here from the Green Mountain 
state. 



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AILROAD FACILITIES. 



The railroad facilities of Littleton 
are of the best, and the town has long 



tion, it went under the control of the 
B., C. & M. in ls5n, and became a part 
of that road in 1873. The extension 
of the road from Littleton to Lancaster 
was completed in 1870, and two years 
later connected with the Grand Trunk 
at Groveton. The line called the Mt. 
Washington Branch was constructed 
to Fabyan's in 1874, and completed to 
the base of Mt. Washington in 1876, 
thus making the connection with the 
road to the summit in the centennial 
year, and constituting the only all rail 




united in this defense, and also for the 
support of preaching. Vermonters of 
the eastern townships largely marketed 
their surplus products in Portland, 
passing through Littleton in their 
"pungs" and bringing back many a 
load of good Littleton shingles and 
other wares. The sons of the sturdy 
Vermont farmers saw here a more ac- 
tive field, in mercantile and professional 
life, than their fertile farms affordeil, 
and many of them sought their for- 



RESIDENCE OF MR. C. F.EASTMAN. 

been known as the "Gateway of the 
White Mountains." Nature marked 
out the Connecticut and Aininonoosuc 
valleys as the great arteries of travel 
and commerce. The Boston, Concord 
& Montreal railroad was completed to 
Woodsville in 1853. The charter of 
the White Mountains railroad was ob- 
tained in 1848, to connect with the B., 
C. & M. at Haverhill and pass via Lit- 
tleton, Whitefield and Dalton to Lan- 
caster. After several years of litiga- 



route to that point from Boston. Syl- 
vester Marsh, then of Littleton, was 
the master spirit in the construction of 
the cog road to the summit of Mt. 
Washington, and the project at first 
met with ridicule. Construction be- 
gan in 18(58, and was pushed with in- 
vincible energy until its completion in 
1876. Previous to 1870, all travel to 
the mountains was by stage from 
Littleton, but the construction of the 
roads above referred to, and later the 



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branch roads to Bethlehem and the 
Profile House, practically put an end 
to this lucrative business. Since the 
control of all these roads has passed 
into tlie hands of the Boston & Maine, 
the excellent summer schedule of trains 
allows tourists from Littleton to visit 
any of the prominent resorts and re- 
turn the same day by a comfortable, 
all-rail route. 



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HE MANUFACTURERS. 



On the occasion of the celebration in 
1884 of the centennial of Littleton Hon. 
D. C. Remich made the following state- 
ment, "Littleton is not, strictly speak- 
ing, and never was a manufacturing 
town ; that is to 
say the business 
and prosperity of 
the tiiwu does not 
depend and never 
did upon the man- 
ufacturing inter- 
ests alone. Be- 
cause of its situa- 
tion, it has been a 
commercial center 
of importance and 
has large and val- 
uable agricultural 
resources. P^or 
these reasons it has 
not been material- 
ly affected by de- 
pression in any 
particular branch 

of industry Owing to the division of 
capital and business the town has been 
much more rapid and continuous than it 
otherwise would have been, and 
there has been no long and serious de- 
pression in its manufacturing inteiests 
such as have affected olhercommuni- 
ties. If one man failed, there were oth- 
ers arising from its commercial, pro- 
fessional or agricultural classes, ready 
to step into his shoes, and prosecute 
the business, or start something else in 
its place equally benelicial to the com- 
munity. This ever present demand in 
our midst has rendered our progress 
content, and to day we boast of our 
town and its manufacturies as among 
the soundest, best and most complete 
in New England ; and, what is better, 



they are substantially owned and con- 
trolled by men born and reared among 
us, or who have been identified with the 
history of the town from an early date." 
This statement is largely true as ap- 
plied to the manufacturers of Littleton 
today, although they are relatively lar- 
ger and fewer than they were thirteen 
years ago. The tendency here, as well 
as elsewhere in New England, has been 
steadily toward concentration and con- 
solation of capital, introduction of cost- 
ly labor-saving machinery, and the di- 
vision of labor ; the net result, an in- 
creased out put and cheapened product. 
This aggregation of capital and labor 
has in too many places resulted in 
■^n antagonism between the two elc- 



thorp, just outside the Littleton border, 
a considerable lumber business is be- 
ing conducted, for which Littleton 
largely furnishes the supplies. The 
same time other industries have come 
to take their places. Tlie granite 
works, and the shoe factory at Apthorp 
are illustrations. All of the glove 
works in town are now consolidated in 
the Saranac. An opposite tendency is 
shown in the carriage business which 
is now in the hands of three different 
firms. We may safely make this sum- 
mary : never before in the history of 
the town were as many people steadily 
employed and at wages of ci|u;d pur- 
chasing value as are lo-dav. 



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RADE. 




MAIN STREET, From in From of the JOURNAL Office. 

ments and has eventuated in strikes ; 
but so ideal are the conditions in Little- 
ton, so friendly and mutually helpful 
are the relations existing between em- 
ployer and employed, that strikes are 
unknown, and shut downs are only 
]iartial and temporary. The millenial 
has not yet arrived however. Several 
industries have become obsolete, nota- 
bly the tannery. Others continue on a 
healthy though restricted basi.s, as for 
example, the sash and blind shop. The 
inanufactuie of lumber in town is year- 
ly diminishing on account of the dimin- 
ished sujjply of stock. The mills of 
the Littleton Lumber Co., at South 
Littleton, will do comparatively little if 
any l)usiness during the ensuing season. 
At Alder Brook, a station nearest Ap- 



I) u r i n g fully 
three quarters of a 
century, Littleton 
has been foremost 
for its hotels and 
stores. We will 
not refer at length 
to the primitive 
establishments of 
Larned & .Jackson 
and T. Wheeler at 
North Littleton. 
The Old lied Store 
of Maj. Curtiss 
was par excellence 
the home of the 
store court, and 
^I a j o r Bell o w s 
gives a glowing account of the 
hilarities of the evening sessions, 
where the alternative was present- 
ed to sing a song, tell a story, treat 
the crowd on toddy, or drink a pint of 
salt and water. William lirackett, 
commencing a year later, in IJSO.'), 
built the large and then imposing 
house still standing in the Ainmonoo- 
suc valley, a mile and a half below the 
village, and for nearly forty years con- 
ducted a rushing trade in the store op- 
posite. He invested his faith and cour- 
age and cash in Littleton's future, and 
retired a wealthy man. He was also in 
company with his brother, Maj. Aaron 
Brackett, in a store at the village. 
George Little, a broad gauge but ec- 
centric son of the original proprie- 



WHITE MOUNTAIN REPUBLIC-JOURNAL. 



tor, Moses Little, was many years a 
prominent factor in trade and in gen- 
eral business. The Keddington's, 
George B. and Henry C, who came to 
Littleton in 1830 and enfratjed in sen- 
eral trade, were men of notable enter- 
prise and ability, and for nearly forty 
years were prominent financiers. The 
Eastmans and Tiltons from Danville, 
Vt., were among the most pushing and 
successful men who have figured upon 
the stage of mercantile life. Later 
merchants were : Francis Hodgman, 
John Farr, R. D. Kounsevel, C. VV. 
Brackett, J. W. Bakh, William Bailey, 
H. H. Southworth, Charles Eaton, Nel- 
son C. Farr, Charles Farr, Tilton Bros., 
Dow Bros., and Bellott's it Son, Tiiis 
is only a partial list of former mer- 
chants. The pioneer merchants opei'at- 
ed at a time when money was very 
scarce, and were compelled to conduct 
a large barter trade and give extended 
credits. At present trade is well organ- 
ized, and goods well classified, competi- 
tion active, profits in most lines moder- 
ate, but the sales are for spot cash or 
short credit. 



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ATER AND LIGHTS. 



Littleton was one of the earliest 
of the smaller New England towns to 
adopt the electric lights. The water 
supply of the Apthorp Water Co. was 
purchased by Coffin & Stanton of New 
York in 1887. They put in a pump, 
and instituted an electric light plant 
with a dynamo of 750 light capacity of 
the incandescent system. They are 
now iii,corporated a s the Littleton 
Water and Electric Light Co. In 
1896 important improvements were 
made introducing a new dynamo, elec- 
tric lights and water supply, with a 
capacity of I'iOO lights. The Bri.stol 
Recording volt meter is used, and most 
of the patrons use the meter system 
paying for what they actually use, at a 
very moderate rate. All of the stores 
and public buildings and many of the 
residences use the electric lights. A 
very ingenious water gauge shows the 
depth of ^water in the reservoir. Col. 
B. H. Corning is the superintendent of 
the company and Mr. Iluiikins is treas- 
urer and Coming's insurance office is 



the headquarters. The water sup])ly is 
taken from pure mountain springs 
brought into a reservoir about the town. 



SUMMER RESORT. 



Thousands of tourists visit Littleton 
every year, attracted by its superior 
advantages as a sanitarium and its con- 
venience as a rendezvous while enjoy- 
ing the unparalleleil attractions of the 
White Mountains. They find here all 
the advantages of rural life, and are at 
the same time in touch with the great 
world by train, telegraph and tele- 
phone. The burning of the Oak Hill 
House in 1894 was a great misfortune, 
but Thayer's Hotel, the 3Iaples, the 
Mountain Home and the Chiswick Inn 
remain, and the new hotel of I. C. 
Richardson will afford ample accom- 
modations for tourists and the traveling 
public. The view from some of the 
higher points near the village can hard- 
ly be surpassed. 



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ARSHALL SANDERS POST. 



Marshall Sanders Post, No. 48, G. 

A. R., was organized October 25, 1879, 
with the following officers : Major E. 
W. B'arr, commander; W. R. Whiting, 
Q. M. ; George W. Hall, S. Y. ; B. F. 
Wells, J. Y. The organization has 
steadily increased in members and in- 
terest, although many comrades have 
been mustered by the "grim destroyer" 
There are now 93 members in good 
standing. In the G. A. R. hall is a 
fine meinorial record, presented with 
an appropriate address by Hon. Harry 
Bingham. The present officers are : 
H. E. Currier, Commander ; B. F. 
Wells, S. Y. ; John Miller, J. Y. ; II. 

B. Burnham, Q. M. ; Solon Simonds, O. 
D. ; A. C. Gaskell, Adjt. ; W. W. Love- 
joy, Chap. 



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TE MOUNTAIN GRANGE. 



White Mountain Grange was organ- 
ized February 19, 1875, with 40 char- 
ter members, with C. W. Bedell lectur- 
er and Abijali Allen as the first master. 
He tilled that position eight years. The 
grange made a steady progressive 
growth. It had its periods of weak- 



ness but maintained its organization. 
It contains at present about 150 mem- 
bers. Mrs. J. W. Farr, master ; Mrs. 
C. R. Allen, lecturer ; Mrs. George 
Bartlett, secretary. 'J'his year the new 
departure was made of electing a full 
board of lady officers. Since 1877 the 
meetings were held iu Grange Hall but 
are now held in Odd Fellows Hall. The 
Grange has proved itself a potent so- 
cial and educational factor in the com- 
munity. 



T 



HE BAR OF LITTLETON. 



The limits of time and space forbid 
anything more than a cursory reference 
to the former lawyers of Littleton. The 
first practicing lawj'er was Joseph 
Emerson Dow, a son of Hon. Moses 
Dow of Haverhill. He located at 
North Littleton in 1807. Elisha Hurds, 
H o n. Henry A. Bellows, Edmund 
Carleton, Hon. Cilvin Ainsworth, Hon. 
William Burns, William J. Bellow.s, 
Hon. Charles W. Rand, John Farr, 
Hon. Edward D. Rand were more or 
less prominent members of the legal 
profession before and during the war. 
The Littleton Bar during the last 
quarter of a century has ranked among 
the ablest in the state. Hurry and 
George A. Bingham, many years in 
company, the Farrs, John and Major 
Evarts W., John S., and W. II. Mitch- 
ell, D. C. and J. W. Remich, Hon. A. 
S. Batchellor, and Hon. Edgar F. Al- 
drich, have been the principal legal 
lights during this period. All of the 
present active members of the bar are 
represented by sketches. 



QO-OPERATIVE CREAMERY. 

The Littleton Co-operative Cream- 
ery, a cut of which is presented on a 
preceding page, is one of the most val- 
uable institutions of the town, and has 
a future of still wider usefulness. In 
1887, Dow it Dalton built the creara- 
erj' building, which was exempted ten 
years from town taxation, and beg;ui 
work. The creamery company was 
organized in December, 1889, with Mr. 
Dow as treasurer and general manager, 
who conducted it for three years. 
These wore the transition years of the 



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movcnieiit, during whioh public senti- 
ment was ripening in favor of a co- 
operative creamery, which was organ- 
ized in 189-J, with Cliarles W. Bedell, 
president ; M. C. Dodge, vice-presi- 
dent ; and Daniel S. Johnson, treasur- 
er. In October, 1895, a branch skim- 
ming station was erected at Dalton, 
which has largely increased the output 
of the creamery. The creamery has 
about 75 patrons, and during the best 
of the season produces about 8,000 
pounds of butter a month. It is sup- 
plied with a modern equipment, and 
cost, including the separator station, 
about ^7,000. The present butter- 
maker, Mr. O. M. Moseley, is an expert 
with seven years' experience, which is 
turned to good account. The reputa- 
tion of the Littleton Creamery butter 
is well established. It took first pre- 
mium on prints at the New Hampshire 
State Grange Fair, and the second pre- 
mium on tubs, and has taken other 
premiums. The butter made by Mr. 
Moseley for the Lj'man Creamery took 
a second prize at the Chicago Exposi- 
tion in 1893. The Littleton Creamery 
has come to lift the burden from the 
shoulders of the housewife, and it has 
come to stay. Mr. C. W. Bedell, pres- 
ident of the co-operative creamery, is 
a leading and public-spirited citizen 
and farmer, who for thirty years has 
resided in the north part of the town. 
Mr. H. H. Southworth, the treasurer, 
is a retired merchant, long and favor- 
ably known to the business public. 
The creamery is now conducted on 
the most scientific principles, and 
only needs a more extended patronage 
to cheapen the cost of production and 
increase the sales, as it is unable to 
supply its orders. 



WILSON & TUTTLE. 
It is well known that Littleton is a 
notable emporium in the clothing trade. 
The large amount of business that the 
four great houses enjoy can be account- 
ed for by two reasons : first, the large 
number of young men who are regular- 
ly employed here at fair wages ; sec- 
ond, the very extensive and judicious- 
ly selected stocks, and the close prices 
at which they are offered, attract an 
extensive trade fi'oni the surrounding 



towns. Wilson & Tuttle is the jun- 
ior firm, but although eleventh- 
hour men, they are getting full wages 
just the same. Anything can here be 
had that is usually found in a first-class 
clothing store, but the special features 
in wiru'h they excel are men's under- 
wear and pants. These prime necessi- 
ties are offered at prices that command 
customers. Mr. Wilson is a veteran 
clothing dealer of Concord, N. H., with 



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Sn maltrr iiit<^ nmiim ft.M niol<tffl 
your fiirm, h*c /»( j( 

pn-iiv !otj Mil. im and up 




branch housi-s elsewhere, and is able 
to secure the best prices from jobbers 
and manufacturers. Mr. Tuttle is a 
young man, with an old head on his 
shoulders, a sharp eye for selecting 
goods, and a breath for talking about 
them that exceeds the continuance of 
the trade winds. Seriously, he is a 
very judicious and reliable salesman, 
and stands by his sales every time, a 
fact duly appreciated by the. public. 
He is ably assisted by Eddie Asselin, 
formerly of St. Johnsbury. Wilson & 
Tuttle conduct a strictly one-price 
store. 



S. OSCAR PARKER. 

The subject of this sketch is a ver- 
satile charactei- and has enjoyed a 
remarkable varied business experience. 
He was born and bred a tanner, a 
business that has engrossed at some 
time the attention of his father, Silas 
Barker, of his grandfather and each of 
his seven brothers. Mr. Parker has 
since been a merchant, a glove maker, 
a traveling salesman and a real estate 
agent and is now conducting the laun- 
dry business. As a young i7ian he 
began his mercantile experience with 



Parker it ^'oung at Lyman aiid later 
had charge of stores at Sugar II ill and 
Lancaster. lie came to Lisbon in 
187'2 and engaged with his brother, 
Ii'a, as a glove maker and later became 
a pai'tner. In the winter of 1S90 he 
travelled extensively in the South and 
West as a salesman of Saranac gloves. 
In December, 1893, he founded an 
agency for the sale and exchange of 
real estate, which he has widely adver- 
tised and has proved an important 
public convenience and which he still 
conducts with considerable success. 
In 1S94 he ]>urchased an interest in 
the Littleton Steam Laundry and later 
the whole business. With his usual 
enterprise he has put in six new ma- 
chines of the latest pattern, which 
enable him to finish his work with 
neatness and despatch. Ilis patronage 
extends for a hundred miles up and 
down this valley and has increased 
one-third during the past year. Tlie 
laundrv employs 12 hands in the 
summer and seven in the winter. }ilr. 
Parker has evolved another fruitful 
idea, the White Mountain Bureau of 
Employment which successfully fills a 
"long felt want." The Bureau is 
widely advertised and procures con- 
genial and remunerative employment 
for parties who can furnish reliable 
testimonials. Mr. Parker mariied in 
1860, Emily R., sister of H. H. Porter 
of this town. They have three sons, 
Harry C, George P. and Carl I., all of 
whom are residents of the town, and 
are assisting their father in his varied 
and extensive business. 



'UREKA HOSE CO. NO. 



A thoroughly well equipped institu- 
tion is the Eureka Hose Co., at once a 
social and a business organ i/.:ition. 
During the past eighteen years, Little- 
ton has enjoyed I he benefit of an efiici- 
ent fire department, at present consist- 
ing of '1-i experienced firemen, with K. 
C. Young, chief ; and H. D. Wilkins 
and A. E. Strain, assistants. The hose 
cart, hook anil ladder wagon, and e(|uip- 
ments are stored in the basement of the 
town building, and just beyond is a 
cosy and neatly furnished firemen's 
club and riading room. Here the 



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boys while away inany a social evL'iiiiig 
hour, with chat, games and reading, for 
there is a small hut well selected libra- 
ry, and eight standard magazines. They 
hold a regular monthly meeting from 
November to May, and a fortnightly 
meeting from May to November. They 
receive at present a liberal compensa- 
tion, twelve dollars each per year, one 
dollar per hour for the first hour S])ent 
at a fire, and .50 cents per hour each 
additional liour they work, and 50 



village, antl Apthorp, and with a pres- 
sure of from 100 to 1'20 lbs. per inch. 
Twelve fire alarm boxes are suitably 
located and connected with the Metho- 
dist bell, in the east, and the Congre- 
gational bell in the west part of the 
village. The Eurekas are not spring 
chickens, but regular fighting cocks 
with their spurs on when the alarm 
sounds. They have always been equal 
to every emergency, and fully confident 
of their ability to knock out a first- 



nious and original turn, he became a 
carpenter and builder, erecting several 
houses. He took up the trade of 
printing while on the farm, at first 
with a small hand press, and as a recre- 
ation. But the typical Yankee, (of 
which Mr. Wallace is a good specimen) 
is able to turn his hand to almost any- 
thing. In 1883 we find our amateur 
printer running a job office and editing 
a newspaper, the Woodsville Enter- 
prise. Mr. Wallace resided in Woods- 




cents when called on false alarm. ]>y 
an annual fireman's ball, and other 
social entertainments, they have put 
away a little sum in their treasury. 
They have good rubber suits and hel- 
mets. They have a Bangor extension 
ladder, 50 feet in length, 2500 feet of 
hose, and a chemical outfit. They 
have three hose carriages, a supply 
wagon and an abundant supply of lad- 
ders. The water supply is carried to 
63 hydrants located in all parts of the 



class blaze, at short metre, which 
justified by their record in the past. 



ELI B. WALLACE. 
Mr. Wallace, though comparatively 
a young man, is one of the senior mer- 
chants in continuous business in Lit- 
tleton. He was born some 41 years 
ago upon the farm of his father, Luther 
Wallace of Bethlehem, and farming 
occupied his principal attention in 
early life. Being of a somewhat inge^ 



ville a yeai', then came to Littleton 
and started his job printing office here, 
but continued to conduct the Enter- 
prise some j'ear and a half longer, 
when he sold it to Mr. F. W. Bittinger. 
Since 1885 Mr. Wallace has occupied 
his present convenient and handsome 
rooms in Tilton block. He carries the 
best assortment of stationery and blank- 
books in town, and a full line of maga- 
zines, also some specialties in fancy 
and Christmas goods. Mr. Wallace 



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lias three printing presses, and with 
liis dozen or more years of experience 
is an artist, and secures a liberal pat- 
ronage, in fact all he is able to do 
hinisflf. He married Miss Myra M. 
lUirt of Bethlehem, who is a cheerful 
hfljimect in the store and home. Their 
]>k'asaiit home is located next the 
National Bank on Main street. 



pONGREGATIONALISM. 

The first statement in the records re- 
garding religious matters, indicates 
that in 1790, six years after the in. 
corporation at Littleton, Rev. A. Kin- 
son ministered to the people six 
months. A decade later, March 18, 
1 silO, it was "voted to choose a com- 
mittee to direct the selectmen in fixing 
a center place in town, to hold meet- 
ings, and hold meetings for preaching. 
Voted Capt. Williams, Capt. Haskins, 
Andrew Rankin, and Mr. Robins be 
the committee aforesaid." In 1802 
the town voted $100 for preaching. 




house. The site for the building, 
about two acres of land, was donated 
by Col. Moses Little, and the building 
was located near the center of the 
town, about two miles from the present 
village. The meeting house was not 
fully completed until 1815, it being 
practically a union church. The nu- 
cleus of the present handsome Con- 
gregational church was erected in 
1834, at an expense of $2000, and a 
vestry was built underneath it in 18.58. 
In 1874 both the interior and exterior 
of the church were remodelled, and as- 
sumed its present appearance. In 
1883 the present spacious chapel was 
erected, and the handsome parsonage, 
on High street, was built in 18SS, at a 
cost of about $6000. The ehurcli was 
organized in 1803, and the original 
membership was slowly increased un- 
til it numbered 35 in 1830. The en- 
tire resident and non-resident member- 
ship is now about 240. 



chair of elocution at several institu- 
tions of learning, aifd is well known on 
the lecture platform. He married in 
187t), Miss Elena L. Gordon, of New 



CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. 

In 1802 or 1803 Rev. John Lord, a 
graduate of Dartmouth, preached here 
for a time. In 1811 the town voted 
1^200 toward the erection of a meeting 



REV. JOHN HENRY HOFFMAN 
was born in 1847 and reared on a hill 
farm in Lyndon, where he remained 
until he was 21. He then developed 
a good physique, and the aptitudes for 
mental and social enjoyment. During 
an attendance of two terms at New- 
bury Seminary he experienced religion. 
He then spent nine years at N e w 
Hampton Institute, Bates College, and 
Andoverand Bangor Theological Semi- 
naries. He is a minister of long 
pastorates, was for seven years 
at Ilenniker, live years at Shel- 
burn Falls, and five at Peterborough. 
An experience of a year in Nebraska 
attached him more thoroughly to New 
England. Mr. Hoffman has been presi- 
dent of several local unions, of both 
the Evangelical Alliance, and the 
Christian I^ndeavor bodies. As a 
l>reacher he gives free expressions to 
very positive opinions. He has filled 
the pastorate at Littleton since 1894, 
and since that time has added sixty 
members to the church, and a debt of 
$2500 has been liquidated. He has 
accomplished considerable literary 
work as editor of the Inkhorn, a reli- 
gious periodical devoted to religious 
interests. Mr. Hoffman has filled the 




Hampton. Their children arc Catli- 
elena V. and John William Hoffman. 



METHODISM. 

Prior to 1843 there was no stated 
Methodist preaching in town, altlmugh 
Littleton, as a part of the great L iiidaff 
circuit, was occasionally visited by itin- 
erants. Services were held pait nf 
the time by Elder Burkley and dtl'er 
local preachers. As early as ls:i2iU( 
memlsers were reported. Rev. J. P. 
Williams, a presiding elc "r rcsid.n-- at 
North Littleton, preachtd in scliool 
houses, and formed a class, sn that in 
1844 Littleton and Whitetield togctiuT 
reported 140 members. Littleton was 
united either with Whitcfield or lieth- 
lehem until 1860, when it became a full 
charge. The church was built soon 
after, and dedicated by Rev. .1. E. 
King. A chapel was built in isydby 
Rev. G. W. Ruland, pastor. The 
church was remodelled in the winter of 
1881 at a cost of §400(1, and again in 
1888. The parsonage was built in 
1887. The church has every accessory 
for successful work. The fiourishing 
Ladies' Aid society has expended about 
§400 on the parsonage since 1891. 
There is an active Epworth League 
and a Sabb.ath school with an average 
attendance of 115 and a chur<h mem- 



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bership of nearly 200. A debt of 
about $.5000 was lifted during Mr. 
Howard's second year. 



nji- 



Rev. C. M. Howard. 
The position of Kev. Charles M. 
Howard as a useful minister of the 
gospel, is the logical out- 
come of his heredity and ■ 
environment. He was 
born in Union, Ct, in 
1S60, son of Rev. Mellen 
Howard, now of East 
Haverhill. C. -M. How- 
ard gi'aduated from Phil- 
lips Exeter Academy in 
the class of '!^3, and for 
tiiree years attended the ' 
Hoston University Theo- 
logical School. The same 
year he joined the New 
Hampshire Conference, 
he found in Miss Mabel 
Bickf ord of Dover a suit- 
able helpmate, and made 
his first settlement at 
Raymond, N. H., where 
he remained four years. 
After preaching for one 
year at Hampton, N. H., 
he settled for three years 
at Woodsville. Since 
1894 he has ministered 
very acceptably in Lit- 
tleton adn has added 41 
full members and six pro- 
bationers to the church. 
The latch- string of the 
parsonage is always out, 
and callers receive a 
kindly welcome. The 
fireside of Rev. and Mrs. 
Howard is cheered by 
the presence of two sons. 



pointed as resident pastor and re- 
mained more than three years, and dur- 
ing this period the rectory was bought. 
He was succeeded by Revs. H. M. An- 
drews, J. S. Kent, H. H. Haynes, Isaac 
Peck, and L. R. Waterman. 

The present incumbent came in 



has organized a vested choir of .34 
members, the largest and the only one 
of mixed voices in the diocese. The 
church is in a prosperous condition. 



1 



•PISCOPAL CHURCH. 



The first regular ser- 
vices of this church were 
held by Rev. J. B. Good- 
rich, then stationed at Lancaster, June 
6, 1875, at the Town hall. The fol- 
lowing July Bishop Niles laid the cor- 
ner stone of the church edifice, and the 
church was consecrated November 19, 
with about thirty members. In Jan- 
uary, 1877, Rev. A. R. Graves was ap- 




EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 

March, 1894, in the capacity of lay read- 
er, and was ordained to the priesthood 
about one year later. Mr. Davis, with 
his various attainments and wide ex- 
j)erience unites personal qualities which 
inspire confidence. He has a Sunday 
school of more than 50 members and 



Rev. EDGAR FOSTER DAVIS 
is a scion of good old Revolutionary 
stock. His great-great 
grandfather, Col. Ben- 
jamin Foster, original- 
ly of Greenland, N. H., 
was the first to capture 
a British vessel, the 
brig Margaretta, sent to 
Machias after supplies 
by Gen. Gage. 

Mr. Davis was born 
at East Machias, Me., 
in 1851. He fitted for 
college at Washington 
Academy, and graduat- 
ed from Bowdoin Col- 
lege in the cla.ss of '71. 
For four or five years 
Mr. Davis was engaged 
in teaching, as princi- 
pal of the High schools 
at Thomaston, Me., and 
at Middletown, Ct., and 
as professor of classics 
at De Garmo Institute, 
Rhinebeck, N. Y. In 
1879 he graduated from 
Yale Theological Semi- 
nary. After filling pas- 
torates in JIaine, New 
Brunswick, at Hamil- 
ton, Mass., and Wolf 
boro, N.H., he wa* 
called to the chair 
English of the Stat- 
College of Pennsylvan- 
ia, and filled this posi- 
tion for four years. In 
March, 1894, he took 
. barge of the Episcopal 
mission at Littleton, 
■and in .Vugust, 1895, 
he organized the mis- 
sion in Whitcfield. In 
1895 he was ordained to the priesthood 
at Littleton. Under his able care the 
number of communicants has doubled. 
In 1874, Mr. Davis married Elmira 
Scott, daughter of Hon. S. H. Talbot, 
of East Machias, Me. Two daughters 
are the issue of this union, Grace Ham- 



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iiiond, and Clara Louise, both recent 
•rraduatcs of the Littleton High school. 
Jlr. Davis made the tour of Europe in 
1881, his parishioners at St. Stephen, 
X. B., defraying his expenses. He has 








furnished many meritorious contribu- 
tions to current literature in prose and 
poetry. He was chosen as poet at the 
Andres celebration, at Ipswich, Mass., 
July 4, 1886, and two of his shorter 
pieces were read at the G. A. K. reun- 
ion in Boston several years ago. 



R 



OMAN CATHOLIC. 



St. Rose of Lima parish was organ- 
ized January ft, 1882, Rev. J. H. Noi- 
seux being the first pastor. Previous 
to its organization it had been a mission 
of the parish of Lebanon, N. XL, with 
L. M. Laplante, pastor. Littleton was 
attended at various times as follows: 
Previous to 1853 by Rev. Hector Dro- 
let, of Montpelier, Vt., and Rev. Fr. 
O'Callaghan, of Burlington, Vt., and 
visited about once a year for about five 
or six years. In 1853, Rev. John 
Brady, then residing in Claremont, N. 
H., was the first regular missionary in 
the Connecticut Valley, visiting Little- 
ton five or six times a year. In 1856 
these missions were divided and Rev. 
J. IL Noiseux visited here monthly for 
10 years and twice a month for four 
more years. In 1876 missions were 



again divided and Rev. F. H. Trudel, 
of Lebanon, was charged with the 
(irafton County missions. He visited 
here for a year and built the church. 
The church was dedicated by Rt. Rev. 
J. A. Healey, Bishop of Portland, 
August 30, 1880. Fr. Brann, of New 
York city, preached the dedicating ser- 
mon. In August, 1881, Rev. L. M. 
Laplante was appointed to Lebanon 
with charge of Littleton until January 
4, 1882, when Rev. J. H. Noiseux took 
charge of Littleton and remained in 
charge until 1886, when he was suc- 
ceeded by Rev. Dennis Hurley, who re- 
mained until 1893. During his pastor- 
ate he bought the land and house next 
to the church, also a tract of land for 
a burj'lng ground. Fr. Hurley was re- 
moved to Penacook, N. H., in Novem- 
ber, 1893, and was succeeded by the 
present pastor. Rev. C. J. Paradis. 




REV. C. J. PARADIS 
was born in the city- of Quebec, Canada, 
and went to Manchester with his fam- 
ily in 1866. In 1873 he entered the 
Seminary of Quebec for his classical 
course, then tlic (Trand Seminary, and 
after four j-ears of theology he was or- 
dained to the ]iriesthood by Cardinal 
Lachereau in May, 1885. After his 
ordination he was appointed as assist- 
ant to Rev. A. Chev.alier, at Manches- 
ter. After 16 months service he was 
appointed pastor al Lebanon, X. H., 



where he remained for seven years. 
While in Lebanon he had charge of 
all the missions from Hanover to 
Franklin. He built a church in Han- 
<)ver, one in Canaan, bought a tract of 
land from the town of Lebanon for 
burying purposes, and repaired the 
church and houses. In November, 
1893, he was called to Littleton to take 
charge of the parish of St. Ro.se of 
Lima. Since his appointment in Little- 
ton he built one church at the Wauni- 
bek, which is a beautiful building and 
nearly paid for. He put new pews in 
the church of Littleton, bought many 
things that were needed, and paid off 
the debt of the church jjroperty. Dur- 
ing his pastorate, the membeiship has 
increased so that the church is hardly 
large enough to accommodate tiie 
worshippers. 



'THE BAPTISTS. 

In tlie earlier years of the century, 
the Baptists in town usually attended 
the Baptist church at Waterford. In 
1840 a small Baptist church was built 
at what was called the Scythe Factoi-y 
Village. The first pastor was Rev. 
Nicholas Bray and the second and last 
was Rev. William Lovejoy. There 
were 20 members, with Anson Alexan- 
der, deacon, and Barnet H. Smith, 
clerk. The church was <lisorganized 
by removals and other losses. After 
services were discontinued the few 




BAPTIST CHURCH. 

members connected themselves with 
the Bethlehem church until 1869, when 
the present church was built, and since 
that time the Baptist interests of the 



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two towns have consolidated here. At 
the time of the reorganization the 
membership was 27, which has since 
more than doubled. Rev. Elisha 
(iuilford was the first settled pastor, 
and remained four years. The pastor- 
ate of the Rev. J. B. Merrill during the 
l)ast six years has been a period of re- 
vived interest and active work, and the 
parish is now united and free from 
debt, aud owns a good church and par- 
sonage. A biographical sketch of Mr. 
Merrill appears on another page. 



two years. Rev. W. C. Litchfield came 
as a supply in November, 1896. The 
society is out of debt, a prosperous 
Sunday school has been organized, also 
a Voung People's Ileligious Union, and 
a renewed interest is manifested. 



"TH 



E UNITARIANS. 



While the old Union church was 
used by the several denomina- 
tions alternately, according to 
compact, the Unitarian preachers 
frequently occupied the pulpit, 
and added zest to the controver- 
sial character of the discourse of 
the period. At a later period, 
owing to deaths and removals, 
the Unitarian sentiment was less 
pronounced. An organization 
was effected June 14, 1873, as 
the Liberal Christian Society of 
Littleton, and a board of trustees 
was elected, Rev. J. P. Kinson 
(LTniversalist) and other clergy- 
men officiating from time to time. 
Rev. J. B. Morrison, pastor at 
Lancaster, began preaching in 
what was then called Union Hall 
in 1881, and continued in charge 
of the movement seven years. 
The present LTnitarian society 
was organized September 13, 
1884, by twelve persons, at the 
home of J. S. Frye. Porter B. 
Watson was elected clerk, and at 
a subsequent meeting, Gen. George T. 
Cruft, J. S. Frye, and Rev. J. B. 
Morrison, were elected a building 
committee, and erected the present 
and modern handsome Unitarian 
church. In April 1893, Rev. Samuel 
B. Cruft, of Boston, presented the 
ciiurch with a tine pipe organ. The 
first settled pastor, Rev. L.D.Cochrane, 
was ordained August 18, 1889, and re- 
mained four years. He was succeeded 
by Rev. Mr. Mitchell for one year, and 
Rev. L. Fletcher Snapp, who remained 



Rev. w. C. Litchfield 

was born in South Scituate, Plymouth, 
Mass. His boyhood was strongly im- 
pressed by the historic associations of 
the "stern and rock bound coast." His 
maternal ancestry was of Revolution- 
ary stock, and his grand-father was a 
soldier in the war of 18ri. He attend- 
ed the Hanover Academy, and pre- 
pared to enter the Meadvillc Theologi- 



tive in the general assembly. In May 
1879 he was ordained at llobart, Ind. 
He was engaged in mission work and 
was pastor four years at Berlin, and 
six years at Gardner, Mass. Mr. Litch- 
field was callcil to the Littleton charge 
a year ago, and has won the esteem and 
respect of his parishioners and of the 
community. 




UNITARIAN CHLKCH. 

cal school, when the advent of the civil 
war in 1861 opened another path of 
duty. He first enlisted in the 18th 
Massachusetts but was not accepted, 
and then enlisted in the first Massa- 
chusetts heavy artillery, and served 
until the discharge of the regiment at 
the close of the war. He then engaged 
in mercantile pursuits. In 1878-9 
he read theology under the direction of 
Prof. F. H. Hedge of the Harvard Di- 
vinity school. During his course of 
studies he served his town as select- 
man and in 1878-9 was its representa- 



rev. fredk. George Chutter 

is well known to the people of Little- 
ton and vicinity, as he was three years 
pastor of the Congregational church. 
After the close of this pastorate he 
made the tour of Europe, visiting 
Greece, Asia Minor, the Holy Land, 
and Egypt. Returning to Eng- 
" land, he took a post graduate 
course at Oxford and Edinburgh 
Universities. He was called to 
the pastorate of a church at 
Lowell, Mass., after his return 
from Europe, but ill health, 
caused by too close study, com- 
pelled him to resign his charge, 
and seek a change of employ- 
y ment. He returned to Littleton 
?.i in 1893, bought Dow Brothers' 
stock, and a year later the White 
; Store. Under his management 
it is a scene of bustling commer- 
cial activity, employing several 
clerks. The store is an exposition 
of dry goods, ladies' furnishings, 
and fancy goods. Ladies' gar- 
ments and fur goods are a spec- 
ialty. Elegant imported rugs are 
given to customers on the coupon 
system. Mr. Chutter strives to 
make "the nimble penny worth 
more than the dull shilling." 
Rev. F. G. Chutter was born in 
the south of England and came to Bos- 
ton in 1872, where he was engaged in 
mercantile life. He began to preach 
the gospel at nineteen, and prepared 
himself more fully for the sacred call- 
ing by a collegiate course at Colby 
University, Waterville, Me., which was 
followed by a course at Andover Theo- 
logical Seminary, from which he grad- 
uated in 1887. During all of these 
student years he continued to preach 
regularly, a strain of effort that some- 
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constitution. Thus Mr. Chutter has 
come to be known in the dual capacity 
of merchant and preacher. lie has 
lectured quite extensively, and is pre- 
paring a literary work <in the ethics of 
art architecture, that may some day 
find its way to the press. . lie is a 
versatile and engaging personality, and 
a power in any field of effort, and with 
returning health may again engage in 
ministerial work. He married Caro- 
line, daughter of Hon. Eben 
Cutler, of Boston, and their 
fireside is brightened by the 
presence of two lovely chil- 
dren. 



goods from New York and Boston, 
under the firm of Tilton & Cady. Re- 
turning to Littleton in May 1854, after 
an absence of three and a half years, 
he soon became a member of the firm 
of C. and F. .1. Eastman & Co., and 
retired from the firm in 1859 after five 
years of active and successful trade. 
We can here only refer to some of the 
more important of the many financial, 
industrial, and mercantile institutions 



HENRY L. TILTON. 

In H. L. Tilton, we rec- 
ognize one of the most dom- 
inant and pervasive person- 
alities that have figured in 
the business life of Littleton 
during the past quarter of 
a century. A mere enum- 
eration of the enterprises 
he has projected and of the 
firms and corporations in 
which he has been an im- 
portant factor, would trans- 
cend the usual limits of a 
newspaper sketch. 

Henry L., son of Joseph 
and Sally B. Tilton was 
born in the grand old town 
of Danville, Vt., May 8, 
18'2S. His boyhood was 
spent upon the fine paternal 
farm at North Danville. 
At the age of fifteen, he 
moved with his father's 
family to Danville Green, 
where, at the age of 19, he 
completed his education at [/V-y/-c^ 
Phillips Academy. The fol- 
lowing spring, 1848, he en- 
tered as clerk in the store of East- 
man, Tilton & Co. With the well saved 
earnings of three years of faithful ser- 
vice, he started in December, 1850, for 
the Golden Gates in company with five 
of his young fellow townsmen. He 
first sold water in the streets of San 
Francisco for a "bit a bucket," was 
then a salesman of hardware at 1200 a 
nmntli, and soon became an importer of 




HENRY L. TILTON. 

with which Mr. Tilton was potentially 
identified in his later career. He was 
connected with Leavitt «fc Brackett in 
the buihling of the mills and the handl- 
ing of extensive lumber interests in 
Carroll, with Brackett & Tilton, deal- 
ers in flour and with J. R. Kilburn & 
Son., in real estate, and was a factor 
of the building operations of the ex- 
panding village. The firm known later 



as H. L. Tilton it Co., and including 
W. J. Bellows and C. W. Brackett, at 
one time owned about 2.3,000 acres of 
valuable timber land. In 1870 he com- 
pleted Tilton Block on Main street, 
where he was engaged in the banking 
l)usiness, which a year later was con- 
verted into the National Bank, of which 
Mr. Tilton has since been a director, 
and vice-president ten years. He was 
also a large owner and treasurer of the 
Union Hall. At the same 
time he served the public as 
treasurer of the Union 
School District and as a di- 
rector and treasurer of the 
Littleton Fair Ground Co. 
In 1S72, in company with 
W. H.Stevens, he purchased 
the Gile property of 125 
acres in Littleton village, 
laid out streets and promot- 
ed village improvement and 
extension. In 1881 he was 
the projector and builder 
of that handsome brick 
structure, Tilton's Opera 
Block. The winter of 18S5-ti 
was spent by Mr. Tilton in 
company with Ira Parker 
on a tour of inspection in 
the! North West, where at 
Spokane Falls he made large 
investments. Here this man 
of boundless energy and op- 
timistic views became a 
leading factor in developing 
that growing city, being ex- 
tensively and for a time 
very successfully engaged 
in banking and real estate 
operations, interests which 
were large!}' depreciated by 
the financial revulsion of 
'93-96. The interests of H. 
L. Tilton and family are now 
steadily appreciating with improving 
times. While not an active politician, 
Mr. Tilton was a delegate to the'Na- 
tional Republican convention of 1880, 
was an elector on the Garfield ticket, 
and in 1884 was one of Littleton's re- 
presentatives in the legislature. He is 
an out spoken temperance man, and of 
kindly social impulses. He married 
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Braokett in 1855, and their only sur- 
viving child is George II. Tilton. Mr. 
Tilton possesses to a rare degree that 
combination of practical foresight, sa- 
gacity and energy which have enabled 
him to take the initiative in great busi- 
ness enterprises. 



GEO. H. TILTON. 
Mr. George IT. Tilton was born in 
Littleton in ISCiO, and educated in the 
High school. At the age of 17 he went 
into his father's office and has since 
been closely identified with this exten- 
sive business as book-keeper and gen- 
eral manager. He was treasurer of the 
I'nion Hall Co., and of the Opera 
lilock Co. He is a member of the 
board of education, and treasurer of 
Littleton Musical Association, also a 
trustee of the public library, and sec- 




retary of the board. He is a member 
and treasurer of the Episcopal church. 
He is one of the charter members of 
the Cohashauke Club, He married 
Cora IL, daughter of J. S. Frye and 
the future junior partner is George II. 
Tilton, Jr. 



BENJAMIN WEST KILBURN. 
The subject of this sketch is in everj' 
sense a representative man of Littleton. 
He is a native of the town, and has 
here built up an enterprise which con- 
tributes to its aesthetic culture and its 
material prosperity. He has always 



been a staunch friend of moral reform fense, and later was a faithful soldier 
and public improvement. He was of the Union. Mr. Kilburn is one of 

the town's representatives to the (Gen- 
eral Court. 



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l)orn in Littleton in 1827 and in early 
life was a founder and machinist in 
company with his father, Josiah Kil- 
burn. In 1858 he was united with 
Caroline F. Burnham, and of this 
union there is one daughter, Mrs. D. 
C. Remich. About 1855 Mr. Kilburn 
began to devote considerable time to 
the camera, and soon after formed a 
partnc'ship with his brother, Edward, 
in the manufacture of stereoscopic 
views, which continued a score of 
years. His field of effort for many 
years was the making of negatives 
representing the scenic wonders of the 
White Mountains, and he is an artist 
of a high order. He has travelled 
extensively on the continent, and his 
collection of nearly 100,000 views 
represents scenes in every quarter of 
the globe. His great stereoscopic 
works, .36 by 120 feet, four stories, is 
a bee hive of industry and employs 
about 60 hands in the busy season. 
This great enterprise is the largest of 
its kind in the world, and has many 
imitations but no e(|uals. Mr. Kilburn 
is a man of quiet domestic tastes, but 
broad gauge in his affinities and of 
resolute energy. When the nation's 
Capitol was in peril in 1861, Benjamin 
Kilburn, with his trusty rifle, at his 
own expense, volunteered for its de- 



HON. HENRY F. GREEN. 
The career of Henry V. (ireen is 
like an open book, and h:is been read 
and approved by the people of this 
town and county. He was burn in 
Lyndon, Vt., in 1841. ()i)ilianc(l by 
his father's death "he early leariieit the 
power to pay his~clieerful self reliant 
way." His earlier educational advan- 
tages were very limited, but by dili- 
gence and economy he ohtained a term 
or two at the Poughkeepsie Business 
college, that he later turned to good 
account. At the age of 24 he went to 
Indianapolis as the book-keeper of a 
large flouring business, but soon be- 
came general manager, and retained 
that position some ten years. He 
came to Littleton in 1877, and was in 
trade four years with Charles Eaton, 
and twelve years book-keeper at the 
Saranac Glove factory. Mr. Green 
served the town on its school board 
and as a member of the building com- 





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mittee to erect the high school build- 
ing. A large share of his time during 
the past decade has been absorbed iu 
the discharge of various pul)lic duties. 
He is serving his sixth term as select- 
man, five terms as chairman of the 
board. During his administration the 
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bridge were erected. Ho was a town 
representative in 1883-4. Mr. Green 
is the chairman of the board of county 
commissioners of Grafton county and 
is overseer of the poor of this town. 
He married Jennie M. Smith in 1^7'2. 
Mr. Green has been in a large sense 
the architect of his own fortunes and 
deservedly possesses the esteem and 
confidence of his associates. 



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HE LITTLETON SCHOOLS. 



The replacement of the 
old Academy by the mod- 
ern High School, though 
not an unmixed blessing, 
has its substantial com- 
pensations. The town of 
Littleton, prior to 1867, 
did not enjoy any sys- 
tematic and thorough 
courses of study for its 
advanced students, who 
were compelled to seek 
elsewhere for academic 
t;-aining. In 1867 a char- 
ter was obtained for the 
present Union district, a 
conmiittee of nine of the 
most prominent citizens 
being elected, who chose 
the site and erected the 
present excellent school 
building on High street. 
From that day there has 
been a steady improve- 
ment in school methods 
and school standards, 
until to-day the High 
school of Littleton occu- 
pies a position second 
to no other in the state. 
There has been a constant 
and growirig interest 
among the parents, prob- 
ably more marked during the past 
three years than ever before. 

This is shown in various ways : 
in laiger appropriations, better equip- 
ment, more teachers, but is perhaps 
most fully shown in the largely in- 
creased number of students who pui- 
sne a regular collegiate course after 
leaving the school. During the decade 
preceding 1894 there were only two ; 



in the classes of '95 and "96 there are 
no less than seven now in college, and 
there are several in each of the present 
high school classes preparing for a col- 
lege course. The classes of '95 and 
'96 each numbered 11 members, all of 
whom were prepared to enter some of 
the college courses. During the last 
three years a third teacher has been 
• added to the High school, which has 
made it possible to offer a more com- 
plete course to its students than any 
other school in Northern New Ilamp- 




of some of Littleton's citizens the School 
laboratories are splendidly equipped 
for the study of physics, chemistry and 
physiology, and a liberal amount of 
time is given to experimental and prac- 
tical work in these subjects. That 
these facts are becoming known out- 
side of Union District seems to be in- 
dicated by the fact that there is an in- 
crease in the number of tuition schol- 
ars in the high school alone of sixteen 
over last term, making a total regis- 
tration of eighty-one for the present 
term. W. H. Mitchell is 
-^ -;(\^^5»7j^ chairman of the school 
board, George H. Tilton 
is secretary, and George 
C. Furber is treasurer. 



THt; KILBURN SCHOOL. 

shire. The course has been much ex- 
panded, and in fact, the same can be 
said of the courses in Latin, Greek, and 
the sciences. Anticipating the in- 
creased requirements in mathematics 
for the scientific course in colleges, ad- 
vanced algebra and trigonometry have 
been added this year to the Eniflish 
course. l>y the profit of school enter- 
tainments and the generous liberality 



FRANK B. PELTON, 
the present principal of 
the Littleton High School, 
is a young man of unus- 
ual energy, culture and 
character, and thoroughly 
devoted to his work. He 
is a native of Lyme, N. 
II. Early thrown upon 
his own resources, and 
impelled by a strong de- 
sire to obtain an educa- 
tion, he pursued his pre- 
paratory studies with 
very little tuition, and 
passed his entrance ex- 
amination at the early 
age of fifteen, in a very 
creditable manner. He 
paid his own way through 
Dartmouth College, by 
teaching and numerous 
other business engage- 
ments, and graduated 
with honor from the 
classical course in the 
class of '93. Three years 
later Dartmouth conferred u])on him 
the master's degree. Mr. Pelton took 
charge of the Littleton High School in 
September, 1894, and has initiated 
many important improvements, and in- 
spired in his pupils a measure of his 
own enthusiasm. He is a member of 
Burns Lodge, F. and A. M. During 
the present yc^ai' he has been ajjpoint- 
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Instruction a member of the State 
JJoard of Examiners of Teachers. Mr. 
Peltoii's efficient service lias been i>r()- 




ductive of such excellent results that 
it is hoped he will long remain at the 
head of Littleton's educational institu- 
tions. 



A. D. WRIGHT & Co., HARDWARE. 

Mr. Wright was born in Middlebury, 
Vt., in 1864. After graduating from 
the high school, he enjoyed ten years 
of valuable experience as clerk in a 
hardware store. Mr. Wright came to 
Littleton in Januarj', 189(3, and estab- 
lished himself in the hardware business 
in Tilton block. He carries a good 
line of shelf hardware, mechanics' sup- 
plies, fine cutlery, tin, iron and hollow 
ware, agricultural implements, stoves 
and ranges. He shows an especially 
full stock of paints, oils, varnishes, and 
brushes. Heating and plumbing is 
made a specialty. Mr. Wright is an 
energetic and reliable young man. 
His motto is "Live and let live." Re- 
turning his thanks tor a liberal and in- 
creasing patronage, he strives to de- 
serve and receive a (•ontinuance of the 
same. 



JAMES BROWN, MILLER. 

The old Eastman & Edson grist mill 

is one of the landmarks of the town. 

It was successfully conducted for many 

years by Curtis, and later by Ezra 



(iates, of East St. Johnsbury, and now 
is run by another man from that vil- 
lage. "Jim" Brown was born in 
that burgh ;JS years ago, but has given 
about halt' of those years to Littleton. 
He worked seven years for Ezra Gates 
and then ran a mill for lilanchard & 
Co. at Lisbon four years. Seven years 
ago he rented this mill, which had re- 
cently been fitted up in good shape 
with new water wheels, etc., and is 
building up a good trade. Last year 
he ground and sold some 54 qar-loads 
of loose grain, corn and oats, besides a 
large custom trade. He also sold more 
than 800 barrels of flour, and more 
than a dozen car-loads of feed. The 
mill is provided with elevators, has a 




storage capacity of 10 car-loads, and a 
car-load per day can be ground all 
right. Mr. Brown is a hard working, 
square dealing man, and he numbers 
among his customers such patrons as 
Thayer's hotel, the Profile, English it 
Bond, and other leading firms. 



Charles H. Applebee. 
Dear reader, with your permission, 
we will spend a pleasant evening hour 
in the hospitable home of Charles II. 
Applebee, soldier, mill man, and black- 
smith. Jog our subject's memory, and 
he will conjure up his recollection of 
primitive Littleton, the straggling 
country village of 40 years ago ; he 



will recount the scenes of camp, and 
field, and hospital, and with his vision 
we shall see the brave lines of blue 
cross the deadly pontoons of Fredricks- 
burg, and challenge death on many a 
bloody field of strife. Miss Grace 




Applebee will evoke for us the magic 
charm of song, and music from the 
piano as bj' the stroke of an enchantress' 
wand. The subject ot our sketch is 
a native and life-long citizen of Little- 
ton, where his beaming countenance 
and rotund figure are as welcome and 
familiar as the rising sun. In August, 
18()2, he enlisted in the 13th New 
Hampshire regiment, and serving much 
of the time for nearly three years on 
detached duty in the ambulance corps, 
saw many of the varj'ing phases of 
"grim visaged war." Before going 
south he married Harriet Randall, of 
Lyndon, \'t., who died in 187.S. "His 
present wife was Mrs. Mary Osgood 
Ranlett, and their only child is Grace 
A., a graduate of Littleton High school, 
and an accomplished musician. After 
returning from the tented field, Mr. 
A])plebee was for many years engaged 
in the lumber business in this vicinity, 
alone, in company with others, and as 
foreman of the Waumbek Lumber Co. 
He purchased the old stone blacksmith 
shop in 1883, repaired it, and has since 
been engaged in blacksmithing. The 
stone shop is a landmark, the leading 
shop in town, with horse shoeing as a 
specialty. Mr. Applebee is agent for 
the Walter A. Wood mowing machines. 
Stalwart, sturdy, and industrious, he is 
the impersonation of Longfellow's 
"\'illage Blacksmith." His substantial 
residence is located above the shop. 
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force about a dozen years. He joined 
linrns Lodge, F. & A. M., in 1867, was 
knighted in St. Gerard Cominandery in 
'68, in which he has since continnoiisly 
held office, and was twice eminent 
commander. He is also a member of 
the G. A. R. 



THE LITTLETON BANKS. 

The Littleton National Bank was 
organized in October, 1871 ; has a 
capital of §150,000, with a surplus and 
uiidivide.l profits of S53,444. The 
present officers of the bank are : Oscar 
('. Hatch, president; George T. Cruft, 
vice-president ; Henry E. Richardson, 
cashier ; Charles E. Smith, book-keep- 
er ; Charles O. Parker, clerk. The 
ili rectors are : O. C. Hatch, C. F. East- 
man, G. T. Cruft, C. H. Greenleaf, Ira 
Parker, W. H. Bellows, .L H. Bailey. 

The Littleton Savings Bank has on 
deposit $1,02;?,751.00, with a surplus 
and undivided profits of §91,965.00. 




Its oflScers are : Charles F. Eastman, 
president ; Ira Parker, vice president ; 
Oscar C. Hatch, secretary and treas- 
urer ; Henry O. Hatch, teller. The 
directors are : Oscar V. Hatch, Charles 
F. Eastman, Ira Parker, George T. 
Cruft, William H. Bellows, Henry F. 
Green and James H. Bailey. 



ed cashier of the Nationid Bank of 
Chelsea, Vt., and served efficiently for 
two years, when, in 1 872, he was elect- 
ed cashier of the National Bank and 
treasurer of the Savings Bank of Lit- 
tleton. In 1887 he was elected presi- 
dent of the National Bank and has 
since filled that position with eminent 
success. Mr. Hatch is a Knight Tem- 
plar and a 33d degree Mason, A. S. R. 
An active and influential Republican, 
he represented Littleton in 1892-3. 



HON. OSCAR C. Hatch. 

Mr. Hatch is a native of Wells River, 
Vt., and after a valuable training of 
four years as general clerk in the Na- 
tional Bank of Newbury, he was elect- 



FRANK C. ALBEE. 
Among the genial and cultured rural 
homes of Littleton, there are none 
more hospitable than that of F. C. 
Albee, who resides on the Peabody 
farm a mile below the new bridge. 
Mr. Albee comes of good native stock, 
hisgrandfather being Alexander Albee, 
an early settler. Curtis Albee married 
a daughter of Laban Tift, a pioneer 
blacksmith, and Frank was the eldest 
of four sons. He was born in 1844, 
and at the age of 20 married Amanda, 
daughter of Horace Buck. The latter 
soon after purchased the Peabody 
farm which has since been the home of 
V)0th families until the death of Mr. 
and Mrs. Buck. The farm contains 
about 325 acres, of which nearly one- 
third is in mowing and tillage. Mr. 
Albee has a fine sugar orchard of 1 300 
trees, but the dairy is the leading 
feature. He has served six years on 
the school board, and is now for the 
second year the efficient road com- 
missioner. Frank C. and Amanda Al- 
bee have two children, Grace and Hor- 
ace Buck. 



C. TROMBLEY. 
The occupation of barber is not fully 
appreciated. He is a conservator of 
domestic happiness. It is his business 
to keep the masculine phiz in pre- 
sentable condition to receive the delec- 
table good bye kiss of wife or sweet- 
heart. .Just imagine for a moment 
what would soon become the appear- 
ance of the stern sex, and what results 
would be sure to follow, were it not 
for the faithful use of shears and 
razor. For sixteen years Mr. Trorabley 
has industriously plied them in Little- 



ton, and if the natives go unshaven and 
unshorn, it isn't his fault. Well, they 
don't, to any extent. INIr. Trombley 
enjoys a good digestion, and a clear 
conscience, and entertains his custom- 




er with such a lively flow of cheerful 
chat, that be rises from the chair with 
refreshed spirit, and a benevolent feel- 
ing toward all mankind. If billards is 
your forte, Trombley will let you shine 
and take your cash. If you want a 
good cigar, a plain or fancy pipe, or a 
railroad mileage, Trombley will make 
you happy. Call and see him in his 
bran new quarters. No. 78 Main Street. 



I. C. RICHARDSON. 



was born in Littleton some 41 years 
ago. His father, Henry Richardson, 
was a farmer and liveryman and his 
son naturally followed in his footsteps. 
He attended the village graded and 
high schools and remained at home 
until he was 22 and then purchased the 
Granite block, and the livery connect- 
ed. It was then a light outfit with 
only five horses, but Mr. Richardson 
developed the business so successfully 
that in '95 he sold the rolling stock to 
G. F. Burkard for a trifle of $8000. 
He has recently re-purchased it. A 
prudent audacity has marked his 
ventures. He built, bought, remodelled 
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having as many as forty tenants. In 
1890 he bought the old B. W. Kilburn 
foundry and machine shop of Tilton & 
Ooodell, and converted it into a grist 
mill, and is doing a land office busi- 
ness, handling from 75 to 100 car loads 



mile from the village. lie has re- 
modelled and constructed a handsome 
front to Granite Block, which is de- 
signed for a hotel, with 45 guest rooms 
above the ground floor. The building 
is four stories, with an observatory 20 



completed next spring, and Mr. 
Richardson will rent it on easy terms 
to the right man. The guest rooms 
are large, and its central location as 
well as its modern conveniences, will 
enable a live man to secure a handsome 




of flour and feed per annum. Mr. 
Richardson is a dealer in horses, live 
stock, pressed hay, wood, in fact almost 
everything, except millinery, hair 
goods and musical instruments. He 
has a good hundred acre farm onlj^ a 



I. C. RICHARDSON'S NEW HOTEL 

by '23 feet, which commands a fine 
view of the valley and mountains. It 
will be heated by steam, lighted by 
electricity, and will be provided with 
speaking tubes, electric bells and an 
pJevO'tor. The bwiWing -^ill ])e ful^ 



patronage from tourists and the com- 
mercial public. Mr. Richardson mar- 
ried Nellie Williams, of St. Johnsbury, 
and they have two children living. He 
is a Knight Templar and in 1891-2 he 
represented Littleton in the legislators, 



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Di 



Dr. t. e. Sanger. 

SaiiLTer is not only the [lioiiecr, 



and the most distinguished exponent 
of his school in northern New Hamp- 
.shii'o, but he has left the impress of his 




strong personality on the social and 
public life of the community. He 
conies of staunch English stock, his 
first American ancestor, Hichard Sanger, 
emigrating to this country in 1636, 
settling in Ilingbam, Mass. Eleazer, 
the great grandfather of Dr. Sanger, 
fought in the old French war and in 
the War of the Revolution. Eleazer, 
his grand sire, was the .pioneer settler 
at St. .JohBSl5H«y*^'ntre. Ezra, the 
father of Dr. T. E. Sanger, became a 
merchant and manufacturer at Troy, 
N. Y., where our subject was born in 
1832. Dr. Sanger completed his aca- 
demic course at the St. .Johnsbury 
Academy at the age of 18, going from 
there to Toledo, O., where he accepted 
a position in a drug store, applying 
himself most assiduously for two years 
in the study of medicine. He then 
attended medical lectures in Philadel- 
phia and also studied in the offices of 
Drs. Stone and Sanborn of St. Johns- 
bury and Darling of Lyndon. He 
graduated from the Homeopathic Col- 
lege of Philadelphia in 1856, locating 
at Hardwick, Vt. He came to Little- 
ton in 1858, where he has since enjoyed 
a most notable professional career. 



His reputation as a most skillful prac- 
titioner was soon established, in a 
clientage at first very, adverse to his 
school, and his counsel has been widely 
sought in critical cases by members of 
both schools. In 1870 he became a 
member of the American Listitute of 
Homeopathy, has held all of the high- 
est offices of the N. H. Medical Society, 
and was the first president of the 
Connecticut Valley Homeopathic Med- 
ical society. Li 1871 he was appoint- 
ed pension surgeon of the U. S. Pen- 
sion Bureau, resigning on the advent 
of the Cleveland administration. He 
is at present medical examiner in the 
K. of H. He became a member of 
Burns Lodge in 1870 and later of St. 
(lerard Commandery, has attained the 
thirty-second degree 'of Scottish Rile 
Masonry and in 1892 was elected G. C. 
of the Grand Commandery of N. H. 
He was united in 1856 to lanthe C. 
Kneeland and three daughters have 
blessed their union : Ellen I., wife of 
Dr. E. K. Parker ; Lillian E., Mrs. F. 
E. Green, and Catherine F. Dr. San- 
ger has been actively interested in 
several semi-public enterprises of the 
village and his unfailing good nature 
and brilliant social qualities have won 
him a host of friends, and his perse- 
verance and ability have secured the 
highest professional reward. 



N. W. RANLETT 
is well known as the veteran carriage 
and sleigh manufacturer of Littleton. 
A tour of the mountains by coach or 
carriage is by far the most healthful 
and enjoyable method of seeing the 
country, but the enjoyment is largely 
dependent upon the vehicle used, for 
mountain roads are liable to be rough 
and steep in places, and considerations 
of safety as well as of comfort demand 
that the vehicle be strong, light, and 
easy, and especially adapted to moun- 
tain travel. N. W. Ranlett has been 
engaged in the manufacture of moun- 
tain vehicles since 1860, and the nat- 
ural presumption is that he knows his 
business thoroughly, and is prepared 
to turn o.ut work that will give ex- 
cellent satisfaction. Such indeed is 
the fact, and the desirabilitv of the re- 



sults attained is not due to experience 
and skill alone, but also to the excellent 
facilities available, the plant being 
very complete and of the most ap- 
]>roved type. There is one shop 50 




feet square, and another 30 by 85 feet, 
l)oth of four floors. A large stock of 
carriages, wagons, and sleighs is carried 
and a thoroughly well-made vehicle of 
modern style may be bought here at a 
low figure. Carriage painting and all 
other work connected with the busi- 
ness, will be done in a superior man- 
ner at short notice, and repairing of 
all descriptions will be done to order 
at moderate rates, the repairing of 
coaches and mountain wagons being a 
specialty. The extensive facilities at 
hand enable repairs to be neatly and 
durably carried out at remarkably 
short notice, when haste is essential, a 
point which touring parties will do 
well to remember. Mr. Ranlett is a 
native of Lancaster, and founded his 
present business more than a third of 
a century ago. He is naturally proud 
of the reputation his establishtnent has 
so long enjoyeJ, and spares no ])ains 
to maintain it in every dc])artmeiit. 



E. THORNTON SANDERSON. 
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." 
A whole cotnmunity enjoys a certain 
proprietory right in a beautiful resi- 
dence or a stately public building; 



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hence the desisiner and buikler is in a 
large sense a public benefactor. lie is 
also an educator of the jniblic taste. 
Pleasant homes are conservators of 




private and public virtue. The skill- 
ful architect is a moral as well as 
industrial factor and deserves encour- 
agement. In Jlr. Sanderson, Littleton 
has a desirable acquisition. He is a 
native of Massachusetts, born in 1S75, 



and received his preliminary training 
at the well known Cambridge Manual 
Training School, from which he gradu- 
ated in the class of '91. He then 
entered the office of Shepley, Rutau & 
Cooledge, successors of the famous 
architect, H. II. Hichardson. This is 
one of the most notable firms in the 
United States, with offices in St. Louis 
and Chicago, and Mr. Sanderson here 
enjoyed exceptional advantages for 
studying high art. He settled in Lit- 
tleton in 1895 and his office is in Uob- 
inson Block over the White Mountain 
Pharmacy. We may observe Mr. San- 
derson's work in the L^nion Congrega- 
tional church at Bartlett, the new 
Haverhill Academy, the new school 
building at Apthorp, several cottages 
at Bethlehem, H. E. Kenney's resi- 
dence on Pleasant street, Parker's 
Cohashauke block, and the new Rich- 
ardson hotel. Mr. Sanderson has a 
brilliant future before him in his chos- 
en profession. 

MRS. E. C. YOUNG. 
Mrs. Young began to learn the 
milliners' trade at the age of 16. She 
worked 18 years for Mrs. J. A. Stevens 



at Littleton and seven years for the 
]iopular milliner, E. H. Phillips, now 
of Manchester. With this extensive 
experience Mrs. Young unites natural 
tact and a pleasing address. Her stock 
of millinery and fancy goods in Mc- 
Coy block merits attention. During 
the busy season she always employs an 
expert trimmer from the city. 




Noah Farr, 
One of the most successful farmers in 
the state. 




The above illustration of the farm buildings and home of No.ih F.irr, with the accompanyinj; p )rtrait of that 
gentleman, were received too late to be printed with the biographical sketch, which ai)pears on anotlier pajci\ 



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M 



ODERN LITTLETON. 



The history of a town or a nation is 
like the current of a river; a continu- 
ous, inseperable movement, sometimes 
rapid and tutnultuous, during the ju'riod 
of some moral or political upheaval, 
sometimes creeping with sluggish, al- 
most imperceptible movement, through 
the swamps of industiial depression, 
anon rushing forward with increased 
volume and accelerated velocity, as it 
assimulates some great tributary indus- 
try. Each generation is the heir of 
others that have preceded it, and this 
fixed capital of heredity is moulded by 
a constantly changing environment. 
Littleton has ever been the gateway of 
mountain travel, and in late years guests 
have tarried within her gates. She 
has been saved from the moral and 
mental inertia, the narrow and self- 
satisfied provincialism which incrusts 
an isolated town. Her citizens annu- 
ally enjoy the social contact, the whole- 
some criticism and sage suggestions of 
cultured and travelled tourists from all 
sections of our great republic. The 
result is a liberal cosmopolitan spirit, 
which is not lacking in local pride and 
patriotism. Her wealthy and success- 
ful men have all sprung from the rank.s, 
and assume no superior style of dress 
or erjuipage, and are kindly and ap- 
proacliable to all. This universal good 
fellowship and republican simplicitj' is 
a charming feature of Littleton society. 
There is no cod-fish aristocracy, and 
"our set" is a very inclusive term. 
The Cohasbauke Club, the great fra- 
ternities, and the church societies, in 
which rich and poor mingle freely in 
social intercourse, are the solvents 
which dissolve all artificial social dis- 
tinctions. During the past dozen 
years there have been no politics in 
the election of town and village otfieials, 
for a citizens' caucus names a ticket, 
selected with reference to individual 
merit and fitness. The result is a clean, 
able, responsible administration of local 
affairs, and the adoption of the policy 
of pernianent impi-ovements and the 
retention in office of men of proved 
fitness. The community is governed 
by moral and intellectual instead of 



spirituous forces. 

During the past decade the material, 
the educational and the religious inter- 
ests of the town have moved grandly 
and harmoniously forward as never 
before. Of the six religious societies 
all have provided new accessories 
or improvements and added to their 
membership ; all are out of debt, and 
all are working harmoniously and effec- 
tively for the regeneration of society. 

The history of the Littleton Musical 
Association is unique. It has existed 
a quarter of a century, and has never 
failed to hold a successful annual win- 
ter convention. It is strong financially 
and a permanent institution. No 




Rev. w. C. Litchfield. 

similar instance of musical persistence 
is on record in this state. Martha 
Dana Shei)ard has been the pianist at 
these festivals for 25 consecutive years, 
and Carl Zerrahn was its patron saint. 
Another flourishing musical organiza- 
tion is the Saranac Band. The rural 
residents, as well as the villagers, 
share in these privileges and the for- 
mer are in closer touch with the 
serene and unseen influences of nature 
that descend like a benediction from 
the eternal mountains. "Then ask not 
why to these bleak hills they cling as 
clings the tufted moss, to bear the 
winter's lingering chills, the mocking 
spring's perpetual loss ; For sweet 



homes nestle in these dells, and perch 
along these wooded swells, and blest 
l)eyond Arcadian vales, they hear the 
sound of Sabbath bells." 

Littleton is a beautiful village. It 
has a peculiar individuality, in the 
charming variety of color, architecture 
and local situation of its residences. 
Spacious old colonial villas, with por- 
ti^jos and Doric columns, are fronted 
or flanked by cosy, modern cottages, 
or handsome Queen Anne mansions. 
I'he business blocks are centred prin- 
cipally on the south side of Main street, 
a long and handsome boulevard, with 
concrete pavement and granite curbing 
through its entire length. Here also 
is located the elegant town building, 
Thayer's and Richardson' great hotels, 
and four of the seven churches. The 
slopes fronting the Ammonoosuc val- 
ley and the mountain sentinels of 
Franconia, are crowned with pretty 
cottages and elegant mansions, and 
towering above these rise the Littleton 
and Kilburn school buildings, and the 
summer hotels, "The Maples" and 
"Chiswick Inn." The Ammonoosuc is 
spanned by a fine steel bridge, with 
massive granite buttresses, and just 
beyond are the tasty passenger and 
freight depots, Edson & Bailey's gen- 
eral store, Kilburn's Stereoscopic View 
factory, and the residential suburb 
known as the "South Side." The past 
half-dozen years have seen a wonder- 
ful transformation in the exterior of 
Littleton. A thoroughly concrete and 
macadamized street has taken the place 
of a former mud-hole, plank, brick and 
dirt sidewalks have been replaced by 
concrete, the steel bridge has been 
constructed with a more uniform street 
grade, and scores of the best private 
residences have been erected, more 
during this year than ever before. 
Trade is well organized on the scale of 
adequate to the public needs. There 
are two general stores, three drug 
stores, three jewelers, a half-dozen 
grocery stores, one furniture store, two 
meat markets, a fish market, three 
hardware stores, four milliners, three 
boot and shoe stores, four gent's cloth- 
ing stores, two dry goods stores, two 
stationers, three restaurants, a bakery, 



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three dentists, two pliotogra]ilKTs, three 
barbers, four liveries, three liotels, 
three summer hotels. The manufac- 
turies are represented by the Saranac 
glove factory, the Littleton shoe shop, 
two stereoscopic view shops, one steam 
saw mill, bobbin and quill mill, marble 
and granite works, two machine shops, 
three carriage firms, two sash and 
blind and lumlier establishments, four 
blacksmiths, and three tin shops and 
plumbers. 

Five lawyers are busily employed in 
tying and untying legal knots, six 
ministers are empowered to tie mat- 
rimonial knots, and to conserve 
public morals, eight physicians facil- 
itate births, defer deaths, and pre- 
serve the public health so faithfully 
that only one firm of undertakers is 
semi occasionally employed in pre- 
paring funeral supplies for an ex- 
ecptionally healthful community. 
The population of the town will 
approximate four thousand, of 
which nearly three thousand are in 
the village and suburbs. The great 
pillars which support the fabric of 
Littleton's prosperity are agricul- 
ture, rewarded with an excellent 
home market local trade, which also 
caters to an extensive and prosper- 
ous farming community, the great 
special manufactures of Saranac 
gloves, stereoscopic views, the Lit- 
tleton shoe factory, and the minor 
local manufactures, and last but 
not least the summer travel that 
pays a lucrative tribute to Little- 
ton, as the gateway, the capital, and 
the treasury of this Switzerland of 
America. All of these industries, 
with the coming revival of general 
business, will soon enjoy the noontide 
of abundant prosperity. 

The lumber business, a must im- 
portant factor in the past, will be 
continued, but with diminished vohuni'. 
Littleton possesses all of the essential 
resources for a healthy and continuous 
growth. The village streets, all busi- 
ness houses, and many residences, are 
well lighted by electricity. A good 
water supply and a live tire department 
have hitherto secured almost complete 
immunity from destructive fires. .Vn 



excellent sewerage system is one of tiie 
recent improvements. The town li- 
brary, endowed with a beautiful home, 
will be progressively increased. Hand 
in hand with its material development 
will go those social, intellectual and re- 
ligious institutions that conserve so- 
ciety, and make life worth living. Its 
banks, railroads, factories, stores and 
hotels are supplemented by its seven 
religious societies, representing differ- 
ing phases of religious belief, bj' its 
great fraternal, patriotic, and benefit 



steadily forward to the opportunities 
of the future. 




THI; AM.WOM )OM 1.- K'IWi< M-^l.' LlirLhlli.N 

societies, by its excellent public school 
system, its instructive lecture courses, 
library and reading rooms. The tools 
are for those who can use them. In- 
dustry clasps hands with opportunity. 
The citizens of Littleton extend the 
right hand of fellowship alike to cajii- 
tal and labor tiiat may here seek a con- 
genial field. ^lindful of the worthy 
examples of the pioneers, thankful for 
dangers averted and acliievments won, 
but intent on the duties and responsi- 
bilities of the present, their gaze is 



HON. ISAAC Calhoun 

is one of the leading business men and 
real estate owners of Grafton County. 
He was born in Lyman in 1882, son of 
James and I'hilena Robbins Calhoun. 
.James Caliioun was a prosperous far- 
mer, in early life a teacher, and an 
original anti-slavery man. Isaac was 
the eldest child and only son of a fam- 
ily of seven children. He was early 
inured to the cares and labors of 
the farm, and his education was 
completed at Newbury Seminary. 
He began life as a f.inner but later 
engaged in the lumber business in 
Lisbon, adding the produce and 
butcher business in which he carried 
on an extensive trade, and soon ac- 
quired a handsome competence. He 
came to Littleton and bought the 
Flanders' plaie in 1?68 and again 
embarked in the butcher and prod- 
uce business. At length he disposed 
of this business and gave his lead- 
ing attention to the management of 
his extensive landed interests. He 
was also financially interested in 
the South Littleton Lumber Co., and 
in a starch factory in Maine, and 
owns several blocks and houses in 
Littleton village. His residence 
and grounds on Main street are ele- 
gant and sightly, and a fine meadow 
is conveniently located. Mr. Cal- 
houn is a man of keen, practical 
judgement, and makes farming pay. 
lie married Miss Ldiyaett Hildreth 
of Lisbon, and after her early death, 
Flora, daughter of Prescott and 
Lucy Young uf Lisbon. They have 
an adopted daughter, Alice M., 17 
years of age. In religious belief, 
Mr. Calhoun is by religious faith a 
Congregationalist. He is a member of 
Purns Lodge, F. & A. .'\I. He is an 
active and infiuential Republican, 
served three years as selectman, and 
as a representative in the State Legis- 
lature of lSS9-'90. He takes an active 
and abiding interest in all the public 
and progressive movements of Little- 
ton, and is one of the town's most in- 
fluential citizens. 



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Parker Brothers & Co. 

It is seliUim that a firm ent!;ages in 
business wliere each ditt'erent nien)l)er 
seems so fully adapted to his special 
work as is the case in this firm. The 
firm was founded in 1S91, and Charles 
Parker, T. E. Parker, and II. II. Porter 
are the jiresent memhera. The busi- 
ness is the sale of standard gloves and 
mittens to retail merchants, and their 
trade is now well established all over 
New England and Northern New 
York, for si.x salesmen are usually on 
the road. The office and warehouse of 
the company are on the second fioor of 
Opera block. The Parkers originated 
in Lisbon, but for many years three of 
the brothers have been residents of 
Littleton, where they have been best 




known to the outside public as manu- 
facturers and salesmen of gloves of the 
best quality, although they have suc- 
cessfully managed other lines. Cliarles 
Parker is a son of Silas Parker, of 
Lisbon, and his youth was spent there. 
lie came to Littleton in 1864. Mr. 
Parker became treasurer and general 
manager of the Eureka Glove Co. soon 
after its organization in 1876, and thus 
continued until that company was con- 
solidated in the Saranac in the fall of 
'89, in which corporation he then be- 
came and has since been a director. 
A large share of the stock of Parker 
Brothers & Co. is obtainsd of the 



Saranac Co., which is a sufficient guar- 
antee of its merit. Charles Parker, 
with his ample experience, is an expert 
of rare skill, and with deft hand and 
practiced eye selects, classifies, and 
ships the orders received by the house. 
lie is building for the future, on a 
basis of the most scrupulous careful- 
ness and business integrity, and fills 
the position of treasurer and general 
manager. His son, Walter H. Parker, 
is now a successful salesman, and 
doubtless will soon become a member 
of the firm. H. A. Merrill is now the 
efficient book-keeper. T. E. Parker, 
the veteran salesman, came here from 
Lyndon, Vt. about 12 years ago, where 
he was engaged in the jewelry busi- 
ness. H. H. Porter has been a resi- 
dent of Littleton a score of years, and 
constantly in the glove business. He 
has invented a patent glove fastener 
and is a first class saksman. 



THE Littleton Lumber Co. 

is one of the oldest and most widely 
known of the business enterprises ot 
Littleton, and has been an important 
factor in the up building of the town. 
The pioneer of the enterprise was Ariel 
Holmes, and later Deacon Tarbell and 
Charles Eaton were for many years 
the leading partners. The main office 
and retail sheds have for many years 
been located near the passenger depot 
and the mills are at South Littleton. 
In June, 1896, A. W. Bean and H. D. 
Green, both active young men of this 
town, formed the present firm. They 
are engaged in the sale of all kinds of 
hard and soft wood lumber, doors, 
windows, sash and blinds, lath, clap- 
boards and shingles. They obtain 
their spruce and hemlock largely from 
mills in this vicinity, their hard pine 
from the South, and the sash and 
blinds from the West in car-load lots. 
Their storage sheds, located near the 
track, are extensive and convenient. 
Mr. Bean is the owner of the large 
coal and wood sheds located above the 
freight depot. The coal shed is 100 
feet long and has a capacity of 1500 
tons of coal and ever^ facility for 
screening and handling the same. A 
car-lo.ad of coal can be unloaile<l here 



in 20 minutes. The wood shed, con- 
tains a large supply of all kinds of 
hard wood. Mr. Bean is in the true 
sense a self made man. He is a native 
of Bethlehem, born in 1861, and was 
early thrown upon his own resources. 
He obtained a good practical education, 
kept books, and became a fourth owner 
in the Littleton Lumber Co. for several 
years. He also was book-keeper three 
years at the Saranac, and five years at 
Zealand, and was three years superin- 
tendent of the mills of the Littleton 
Lumber Co. at South Littleton. He 
married Estelle A. Chandler of Little- 
ton. Harry I). Green was born in 
1872, and is a son of Henry Green. 
After completing his education at the 
Littleton High school Mr. Green was 
engaged in the grocery business. He 
married Persis A., daughter of T. E. 
Parker of Littleton. The Littleton 
Lumber Co., under the management of 
these active and able young men, offers 
valuable facilities to the building trade. 




John w. Farr. 
Two and one-half miles northwest- 
erly from Littleton is " Maplewood 
Farm," whose owner, John W. Farr, 
has long been well known am>)ng the 
farmers of northern New Hampshire, 
and also prominent among grange cir- 
cles. This is the original homestead, 
settled in 1802 by Ebenezer Farr, of 
Chestci-field, to whose son Joseph it 
descended. John Wilder Farr, son of 
Joseph and Betsy (Daiifoi-lh) Farrj 



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was born <iii the I'aim, May 26, 18'25, 
and has spent his entire life here, vvitli 
the exception of ten years devoted to 
railroading in MassachusettSjNewYork 
and Ontario. In 1857 he retni-ned to 
Littleton, took charge of the farm, and 
has since successfully pursued the agri- 
cultural calling. There are 175 acres 
of land, of which about 50 acres are 
mowing and tillage. The annual hay 
product is about 35 tons, which is sup- 
plemented by oats and corn, llixed 
farming is followed, but dairying is a 
leading feature, the butter from eight 
or ten cows, mostly grade Jerseys, 
being generally sold to private custo- 
mers. Mrs. Farr's reputation as a 
butter-maker is first-class, her butter 
having commanded first premiums at 
state and local fairs, and her exhibit at 
the World's Fair, Chicago, in 1898, 
having been awarded a medal and di- 
ploma. Mr. Farr first married Eliza 
D. Phelps, of Merritton, Ont., who 
died in 1861, leaving two daughters, 
Etta P. and Nellie E., of whom the 
latter, a trained nurse, only survives. 
His present wife was Miss Alwilda P. 
Lane of Lancaster, by whom he has 
had four children. E<lward C, the 
eldest son, is a farmer in the town of 
Orange ; Myra L, is a teacher in Lit- 
tleton, and, as well as the youngest son, 
John W. Fan-, Jr., resides at home. 
Mr. Farr was one of the charter mem- 
bers of White Mountain Grange and 
has served seven years as overseer and 
five j'ears as master, and has been a 
faithful and devoted member of the 
subordinate and state granges, having 
been four years a member of the execu- 
tive committee in the latter body. He 
was a charter member of Northern 
New Hampshire Pomona Grange, and 
its chaplain in 1890. Mr. Farr was a 
member of the advisory council of the 
World's Congress Auxiliary, on Farm 
Culture and Cereal Industry, at Chi- 
cago in 1893, and has been vice-presi- 
dent of the New Hampshire Horticul- 
tural Society, since its organization, 
being an extensive and successful fruit- 
grower. He has also been a director 
and one of the executive committee of 
the Grafton and Coos Grange Fair 
Association, and a ill rector of the 



Grange State Fair. He is a Congrega- 
tionalist in religion, and a KepubliL-an 
in politics, and was one of the repre- 
sentatives from Littleton in the legis- 
lature of 1895-'96. 



A PTHORP. 

The Tiame of Apthorp is historic. It 
designated at one time the present 
to vn of Littleton and the first child 
born in town was named Apthorp. 
The thriving village of Apthorp is 
located about a mile from the business 
center of Littleton village, with which 
it is closely identified by business in- 
terests and will within a quarter cen- 
tury be united by cordon streets and 
an electric road and thus become a 
constituent part of greater Littleton. 
For many years the scythe factory was 
the leading enterprise and gave its 
name to the village, bnt the principal 
industry which has infused new life 
into the village is the Littleton Shoe 
Co. The village has grown steadily 
and solidly during all of these years of 
business depression and public im- 
provements have followed, which in- 
clude water supply, new school house, 
delivery of mails twice a day, and 
others of minor importance. The 
growth of Littleton village will almost 
necessarily be toward Apthorp. To- 
pography largely determines location 
of residence and business, and in this 
vicinity the valley spreads out, giving 
excellent building sites and good drain- 
age. A succession of gaod water priv- 
ileges on the Ammonoosue are easily 
available for the location of manufactur- 
ing plants. Apthorp is yet in its 
swaddling clothes ; it has a future of 
growth and prosperity. 

EDWARD HALE WELLS 
is best known as the genial merchant 
and post master of Apthorp, and he is 
closely identified with all of the pro- 
gressive public movements of that 
thrifty burgh. He is one of Littleton's 
good and true men who were cradled 
at Sugar Hill, Lisbon. His boyhood 
was spent at Franconia, and in 1879 at 
the age of 19, he came to Littleton as 
clerk for Eaton ife Green. In 1882 he 
married Miss Hattie L. Phillips of Con- 



cord, Vt. In 1884 he engaged in tlie 
b.ikery business and conducted the 
Opera dining hall very successfully. 
Four years later he came to Apthorp 
and bought his present store, and he 
was post master in 1887. Mr. Wells 
nearly douliled his stock of goods the 




first year, adding the new features of 
dry goods and foot wear, and soon de- 
veloped a lively but conservative trade. 
His clerk is A. J. Brooks, also assist- 
ant post master. Mr. Wells is active 
and public spirited and was largelv in- 
strumental in securing and building 
the handsome new school house at Ap- 
thorp, and is one of the town school 
directors. He has one son, Harry A. 
Wells. His present wife was formerly 
Elizabeth Barnham, of Lawrence, Mass. 



Smith Brothers. 
The members of this firm, E. J. and 
G. W. Smith, are natives of Littleton, 
sons of Rufus Smith, the veteran gran- 
ite cutter. They are both practical 
artizans, and E. J. has enjoyed valuable 
experience in Massachusetts, where he 
was foreman four years for the Rock- 
port Granite Co., and last year was 
foreman of the stonework in the con- 
struction of the great Holyoke <lam. 
The firm was formed last January and 
their shop and power plant were rented 
of the Littleton Shoe Co. A large 
share of their granite comes from the 
celebrated Wetmore Jk .Morse quarry 
of Harre, Vt. Smith Brothers are pre- 
jiared to do all kinds of monumental 
and building work promptly, in a 
workmanlike manner, and at prices to 
suit the times. The peoi>le of this 
vicinity will show enlightened self-in- 
terest by patronizing this valuable 
home industry. 



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The Littleton Shoe Co. 

This corporation was organized in 
September, 1896, with the following 
officers: D. C. Reraich, president; 
Ira Parker, vice-president; John G. 
])ent, treasurer ; A. D. Nute, general 
manager. The above gentlemen with 
Hon. Oscar C. Hatch, president of the 
First National Bank, J. H. Bailey, F. 
H. English and W. 11. Bellows 
constitute the board of directors. 

The factory is 40 by 100 
feet, four stories and basement, 
and is located on the Ammonoosuc 
river at Apthorp. It is run by water 
power with an adequate steam power 
attached, is provided with all modern 
conveniences, and is owned by the 
town. The company manufacture a 
varied line of men's, boys', and youths' 
satin calf shoes, and a full line of col- 
ored goods in their season. More than 
200 hands are employed, principally 
natives of this section. The present 
output is about 100 dozen pairs of 
shoes per day, with a constantly in- 
creasing demand and production. Un- 
der the present able and conservative 
management, the factory is the latest 
and most important acquisition to the 
in<lustrial prosperity of Littleton. 

George C. Patten. 

Where the Rankin brook leaps from 
the hills to join the broad Connecticut, 
nestles the little hamlet of Pattenville. 
It was at or very near this point, that 
.Jonathan Eastman, about 110 years 
ago, located the first grist and saw 
mills that supplied bread and shelter 
to the hardy pioneers of Littleton. In 
due time Solomon Whiting became the 
owner of what was known as the MuUi- 
ken mills, and his son, Robert, suc- 
ceeded him, but u])on the latter's death 
from an accident received in the mill 
in 1874, George C. Patten, grandson 
of Solomon Whiting, succeeded to the 
property. George C. Patten was born 
in Boston in IS.'i'i and is a son of 
George C and Melissa Whiting Patten. 
Our subject's father came from New 
Brunswick to Boston and was engaged 
in the publishing of books, but his life 
was cut short at the early age of 28 by 
consumption and his wife followed him 



to an early grave. The orphaned child 
found a home with his grandfather, 
Solomon Whiting. Mr. Patten has in- 
voked the aid of modern invention. 
In 189.3 he put in a large cider press, 
styled the Mt. Gilead ])ress, operated 
by hydraulic pressure, and which 
grinds about 750 bushels of apples per 
day, and it receives an extensive pat- 
ronage from the apple producers of the 




vicinity. He has enlarged and re- 
modeled the mills, and in 1895 put in 
a 60-horse power boiler and engine as 
an emergency fund in a time of low 
water. Mr. Patten manufactures all 
kinds of bill timber, shingles, and but- 
ter tubs. He has in view improve- 
ments which will enable him to finish 
flooring and house finish. His farm is 
a convenient adjunct to his lumber 
business. Mr. Patten married Jennie 
E., daughter of Madison Sanl)orn of 
Littleton, who died in her eighteenth 
year, leaving one son, Frank T. Mr. 
Patten is a Republican and liberal in 
his religious views. He exhibits a per- 
severing industry, and rectitude of pur- 
pose, that commands the respect of his 
associates. 



THE REPUBLIC-JOURNAL. 

The first number of the White Moun- 
tain Republic was issued October 4, 
1867 by Chester E. Carey, who had 
purchased in the September preceding 
of L. W. Rowell the printing material 
of the Littleton Gazette, which was 
discontinued. The Republic ofllce was 
located in Union Block, then recently 
erected. It was a seven column ])a])er, 
23 by 35 inciies. Democratic in politics, 
printed on a hand press, and the sub- 
scription price was ^'2.00 per annum, 
which seems like a large price at the 
present time. Henry H. Metcalf was 



editor for the first six months, after 
which Mr. Carey took full charge un- 
til September 1871. In April, 1868, 
Mr. Carey moved the office to Smith's 
block, where he remained until Feb- 
ruary, 1871, when he again moved into 
a building he had purchased near the 
old brick store and fitted up for an 
office and dwelling. September 15, 
1871, he sold the paper and material, 
to which he had added a Guernsey 
power press, to Henry H. Metcalf, who 
again moved the office to the second 
floor, last end of Union block. Mr. 
Carey left town and was afterward 
connected with various papers. He 
died in Hanover, September 25, 1896. 
Mr. Metcalf conducted the paper until 
April 27, 1874, when he sold the paper 
and material to George C. Furber. It 
was then located in two small rooms 
and the- material from which it was 
printed was not worth more than i5i800. 
Larger and more commodious quarters 
were soon needed and January 1, 1880, 
the office was moved to the ground 
floor of L. P. Parker's building, corner 
of Main and Pleasant, a modern power 
press and steam power added and the 
plant made one of the best in Northern 
New Hampshire. In 1880 Mr. Furber 
started the White Mountain Record in 
North Conway, dividing his time be- 
tween the two, and sold a half interest 
in the Republic to D. O. Wallace. In 
1882 or '83 Mr. Wallace sold back his 
interest to Mr. Furber, who from that 
time continued sole editor and pro- 
prietor until 1891. January 1, 1881, 
the good will of the Haverhill Herald 
was purchased and the subscription list 
merged with that of the Republic. In 
1886 larger quarters were needed and 
the office was moved into the Nelson 
C. Farr block where it remained ten 
years, tin til it was moved to its present 
location in 1896. September 7, 1889, 
Mr. Furber purchased of .John D. 
Bridge the Littleton Journal and the 
two papers were consolidated under 
the name of Republic-Journal, and the 
size increased from four to eight pages. 
October 1, 1891, on account of poor 
health Mr. Furber sold a two-thirds 
interest and the active management of 
the paper to Willis H. Colby, and a 



WHITE MOUNTAIN REPUBLIC- JOXJRN At. 



year later sold Mr. Colby the remain- 
ing third. 

In January, 1895, D. B. Pluiner & 
Co. bought the office from Mr. Colbj', 
and A. W. Emerson assumed control. 
In tlie spring of 1896 the office was 
moved to its present handsome and 
commodious quarters, and new machin- 
ery was added, placingthe equipment far 
ahead of that of any other office north 
of Concord. The following November 
the Plumer Publishing Co. was incor- 
porated, Mr. Emerson continuing as 
editor and manager until May of the 
present year, when James M. W. Coop- 
er assumed charge of the business 
department. October 1, Mr. Cooper 
and Allan F. Sparrow leased the 
plant from the Plumer Publish- 
ing Company. Last July a new 
publication was started, The White 
Mountain Life, a summer weekly devo- 
ted to the resorts of the White Mount- 
ains. Its success was assured from the 
first number, and throughout the coun- 
try it was pronounced the handsomest 
and newsiest resort magazine published. 
Much new material has been added 
during the past three months, and fur- 
ther improvements are contemplated 
in the near future that will more thor- 
oughly equip the office for rapid and 
perfect work. An idea of the present 
capacity of the office may be had from 
this special number, which was com- 
pleted in less than three weeks from 
the receipt of the first installment of 
copy, besides carrying on the regular 
work of the office in both newspaper 
and job departments. 



THE SOUVENIR. 
"The first shall be last, and the last 
shall be first," is sometimes true, but 
in this case the last shall be in the 
middle, for this is the last page to be 
printed, yet is the middle of the book. 
In preparing this special edition, we 
have been greatly hampered by failure 
of the engraving company to furnish 
the illustrations promptly, and we go 
to press with this form without three 
large cuts — of the shoe shop, of Hon. 
Isaac Calhoun's residence and Warren 
W. Lovejoy's farm. We have waited 
until further delay means that the 



edition will not be printed to circulate 
at the advertised time, so these excel- 
lent features must be omitted. 

In other ways the work has lieen 
hindered, yet the paper is out on time, 
and is, we believe, as handsome a sou- 
venir as has ever been issued from a 
country office. More than a ton and 
a half of fine book paper has been used 
to print the five thousand copies, and 
the expense can best be realized by 
those who have had done work of a 
similar nature; A copy of this souve- 
nir goes to each of our subscribers, 
and many extra copies will be sent out 
by those who are included in the 
sketches. We have left about one 
hundred copies, which can be had at 
ten cents each, which barely covers the 
actual cost. With best wishes for a 
merry, meri-y Christmas, and trusting 
that this will not be the least of your 
holiday blessings, we are, most cor- 
dially. The PriiLisHERS. 



E. C. GLEDHILL, D. D. S. 
is located in Parker building next door 
to Kennsy & Co's drug store. Office 
hours from eight a. m. to five p. m. 
daily. Dr. Gledhill has received a di- 
ploma from the Baltimore College of 
Dental Surgery, also holds a certificate 
granted by the state board of examiners 



in dentistry of New York, and also of 
the state board of New Hampshire. 
Having taken a special course in crown 
and bridge work and being provided 
with latest improvements for doing 
this kind of work he feels confident of 
giving satisfaction. All operations are 
carefully and scientifically treated. 
Painless extraction by the use of all 
known aniesthetics. All examinations 
free. 

BURNS Lodge, F. & A. M. 
Regular communications of Burns 
Lodge, No. 66, F. & A. M., are held 
Thursday of the week in which the 
moon fulls, in Masonic hall, Union 
Block. The officers are : H. K. Hal- 
lett, W. M. ; W. F. Robins, S. W. ; 
A. W. Coburn, J. W. ; C. F. Eastman, 
treasurer; F. H. English, secretary; 
J. F. Tilton, chaplain ; W. M. Silsby, 
Sr. Deacon ; W. A. Beebe, Jr. Deacon. 

Lafayette Lodge, I. O. O. F. 
was organized about 20 years ago with 
seven charter members, and that nuin- 
ber has increased twenty fold. The 
Odd Fellows' Block is a monument to 
the enterprise of the Lodge. The 
present officers are : B. H. Pennock, 
N. G. ; John Woodward, V. G. ; Au- 
gust Huron, secretary; O. AV. Hunk- 
ins, treasurer. 




THE CONGREGATIONAL PARSONAGE. 



WHITE MOUNTAIN REPUBLIC-JOURNAL. 



C. F. HARRIS iV CO. 
The traveler will scarcely fail to 
notice the Harris carriage works, lo- 
I'aleil just above the village on tlie 
Anmionoosuc river. The main build- 
ing is o5 by 100 feet, two stories, not 
including the elevator and two large 
buildings for storage. It occupies the 
former site of the scythe factory. This 
business was founded by C. F. Harris 
eight years ago, and in 1S92 Henry 
-Merrill becan\e a partner, giving his 
]ierson;il attention to the outside busi- 
ness antl the care of the books. The 
following March the building was 
destroyed by tire, ami the present build- 
ings were erected the same season. 
Since that time the most improved 
machinerv has been introduced, and 



Court. Harris & Co. is a strong and 
reliable tirin, and their business is one 
of the important recent acquisitions of 
Littleton. 



'i'lie store has a long distance telephone 
and is connected with the ottices of the 
leading physicians, A handsome soda 
fountain is well patronized in its sea- 
son. 




tlie business has greatly expanded, em- 
ploying a force of ten men most of the 
time. The specialities of the firm are 
the manufacture of the popular Harris 
sprins sleigh and mountain wagons. 
These wagons are strong, convenient, 
stylish and safe, being provided with 
effective breaks, and are just the thing 
for a four or six-in-hand turnout for 
pleasure parties. The firm also manu- 
factures heavy farm and job wagons, 
standard l>uggies and sleighs and their 
goods and prices warrant careful in- 
spection. Mr. Harris was born in 
lS5t>, and for "26 years has been en- 
gaged in the work of making carriages. 
The products of his skill need no 
recommendation in this vicinity. The 
Harris spring sleigh receives a good 
endorsement and patronage from the 
best trade. Mr. Merrill is a life-long 
citizen and an honorable and success- 
ful business man of Littleton. He was 
formerly a merchant tailor and has 
represented the town in the General 



THE OPERA DRUG STORE 
is one of the most popular of the busi- 
ness houses of Littleton. The hand- 
some stock is displayed in the most 
artistic and convenient style, in fact 
the store is an object lesson of classi- 
fication and arrangement. The stock 
comprises almost everything in the line 
of drugs, chemicals, specifics and pro- 
l>rietory medicines, a large line of 
druiruists' sundries, confectionery, per- 
fumes and cigars. Callers may always 
depend uj^on receiving prompt and 
polite attention, and upon articles 
proving just as represented in every 
instance. Charles F. Davis, the senior 
jtartner, is a native of Whiteiield, and 
purchased this business a year ago. 
He has had a dozen years experience 
in the drug business in Whitefield and 
Plymouth, and is a registered pharma- 
cist. Mr. Davis' wife was nee Hattie 
JI. Brown of Whitefield. He is a 
member of St. Johns Lodge, No. 58 of 
AVhitetield, and of North Star Com- 
mandery of Lancaster. Frederick E. 
Green, the junior member of the firm, 
first saw the light of day at Portland, 
Mich., 'lb years ago. He received his 
education at the High school in that 
place after which he obtained a posi- 
tion with the Littleton druggists, Rob- 
inson Bros. He continued in their em- 
ploy for four years, leaving there to 
complete his pharmaceutal studies at 
the Massachusetts College of Phar- 
macv. He received his diploma about 
a vear ago and, previous to November, 
was engaged in Manchester and Bos- 
ton drug stores. On the latter date he 
bouirht an interest in the drug store of 
C. F. Davis «.t Co., the new firm being 
known as Davis ifc Green. Mr. Green 
has a superior claim on Littleton from 
the fact that he married December 26, 
189.5, Lillian Edith, daughter of Dr. T. 
E. Sanger, by whom he has one child, 
Wayne Sanger. Their affable head 
clerk, William C. Spencer, is also ex- 
perienced in the business, and pre- 
scriptions are accurately compounded. 



MARSHALL C. DODGE. 

Situated on the Littleton rOid, jus'; 
above the great steel bridge which 
spans the Connecticut river, stands a 
great square house and barns which, 
though in good repair, were built more 
than four-score years ago by Jonas 
Lewis as a stage tavern. In tje old 
days many a stalwart Vermonter, his 
pung- loaded with produce for Port- 
land, put up for the night, toasted his 
shins before the ample fire-place, and 
sipped his mug of flip while jest and 
story went the rounds. Fred Cross, 
now a lusty veteran of 90, residing in 
Waterford, and, later, Horace Buck 
were landlords. The house has not 
been used as a tavern for about thirty 
years, and for the past sixteen years 
has been the home of Marshall C. 
Dodge and his father, Levi Dodge, un- 
til the death of the latter last year at 
the age of 75. LeviDodge was widely 
known as a horse doctor, or veterinary. 
Simeon Dodge, the father of Levi, 
was an early settler. Levi was born 
in Littleton, and always lived here, ex- 
cept a few years in early life spent in 
Vermont. His two children were Mar- 
shall C. and Ellen C, deceased, who 
married Carlos P. Day. M. C. Dodge 
is an excellent representative of the 
frugal, honest, industrious, shrewd, yet 
liberal minded and open handed Yan- 
kee. farmer. His farm contains about 
150 acres, some of it excellent interval, 
and is conducted mainly as a dairy 
farm with ten good grade Jerseys. 
Three years ago Mr. Dodge introduced 
a Sharpless hand separator, which he 
has just replaced by one of the same 
make using steam power, which tills 
the bill perfectly as the butter shows. 
He has recently built a silo. Mr. 
Dodge is a Republican, but doing well 
his part in tiie ranks, has never aspired 
to the rewards of office. He is at 
present one of the school directors of 
the town. He was a charter member 
of the Grange, and a leading stock- 



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bolder and a director in the creamery. 
He is also a stock-holder and clerk of 
the Littleton Biidge Co. His word is 
his bond, and his conduct is anchored 
to moral principle. He married Miss 
Martha A. King of Landaft'. They 
have three daughters, Ellen M., Alice 
F., and Katie E. The two eldest are 
students at the High school, and all are 
exceptionally good scholars. 



DR. W. C. E. NOBLES, 
The joungest of the physicians of Lit- 
tleton, has already won the good opin- 
ion of the people by his strict attention 
to business and his affable manners. 
Dr. Nobles received his earliest educa- 
tion in the High School of Rochester, 
N. Y. He resolved to prepare himself 
thoroughly for the medical profession, 
and accordingly entered the Cleveland 
University of Medicine and Surgery, 
the first university to allow ladies to 
enter its medical and dental depart- 
ments on the same conditions as men. 
It also possesses the distinction of 
being the oldest Homeopathic college 
in the world with an unbroken history. 
For two years Dr. Nobles was connect- 
ed with the gynecological and general 
surgical clinic of the above institution, 
which gave him an opportunity to be- 
come a competent and skillful opera- 
tor, he being associated with the most 
brilliant physicians and surgeons of 
the west. He was for one season in 
charge of the Good Samaritan Dispen- 
sary at Cleveland, which afforded him 
excellent advantages, as about 20,000 
prescriptions were issued through the 
season. Dr. Nobles has also had ex- 
tensive obstetrical practice in a mater- 
nity hospital at Cleveland. He also 
spent one summer in practice in Roch- 
ester, N. Y. Last April, Dr. Nobles 
established himself in practice in his 
spacious apartments in Opera Block, 
and is able to promptly answer calls 
in person or by telephone. His office 
hours are from 10 to 12 a. m., 1 to 3 
and 7 to 8 p. ra., and during these 
hours he is always to be found in his 
office. With such a varied and care- 
ful preparation for work, united with 
a high and steady purpose, a useful ca- 
reer seems open to thisyoungphyslcian. 



S. C. SAWYER, D. D. S. 
There is no other calling or pro- 
fession where the personal element 
counts more than in dentistry. The 
dentist should be not only expert, but 
a good judge of human nature, and 
above all, agreeable and sympathetic. 
Sawyer beguiles the patient's attention 
with such a flow of interesting chat, 
that he forgets the pain and the punch- 
ing and is almost reluctant to leave 
the chair. S. C. Sawyer was born in 
Bethlehem in 1845, but as an infant 
came to Whitefield with the family of 
his father, W. H. Sawyer. He left 
home at the age of 17, and four years 




a superior preparatiorj f<ir the preser- 
vation of the teeth and gums, entirely 
free from all injurious acids which is 
well received. Dr. Sawyer is a mem- 
ber of the State Dental Association ; 
also of both the great fraternities. He 
is a deacon of the Congregational 
church and in politics a third party 
Prohibitionist, and has been the nomi- 
nee of that party for both the Senate 
and House. He married in 1868, 
Lizzie J. Burns, a granddaughter of 
Maj. John Burns, an otticer of the 
Revolution. They have two children, 
Fred Burns, a dentist of Lisbon, and 
Gertrude Prince. 



later began the study of dentistry in 
the oflice of Dr. A. W. Howland of 
Lawrence, Mass. He soon after took 
a course of study in the Philadelphia 
Dental College, and settled in his pro- 
fession at Lakeport, N. IL, where he 
remained four years. He came to Lit- 
tleton 25 years ago and has built up a 
large and successful practice. Dr. 
Sawyer keeps in touch with advanced 
ideas and the latest improvements in 
practice. He wholly discards the use 
of cocaine, using instead ouehozo which 
is approved by French and German 
scientists, and contains none of the 
poisonous ingredients of the former 
substance. Dr. Sawyer has prepared 
and placed upon the market "Sawj'ei's 
Golden Detergent and Magic Powder," 



E. K. PARKER, M. D. 
Edwin K., son of Hullis M. and 
Sarah Bronson Parker, was born in 
Lyndon, Vt., in 1868. When he was 
ten years old the family moved to 
Littleton where he attended the Little- 
ton High school. After leaving school 
he entered the Saranac glove factory 
where he became an expert workman. 
He spent several years in that employ- 
ment in Littleton and Warner, N. H. 
He determined to adopt the medical 
profession and accordingly entered the 
office of Dr. T. E. Sanger. By the aid 
of his skill as a glove maker he worked 
his way through the medical school 
and graduated with honor from the 
New York Homeopathic Medical Col- 
lege and Hospital in 18S8. He then 
settled in West Cornwall, Vt., where 
he worked up a flourishing practice 
and gained many devoted friends 
among his patients during the eight 
years he remained among them. While 
there he filled the position of post- 
master, but after a post graduate course 
in New York he decided to return to 
Littleton and settled here in the sum- 
mer of '96. Last June he married 
Ellen Ingeborg, daughter of Dr. T. E. 
Santrer. Amid the cherished surround- 
ings of his early home, and with friends 
who appreciate his sterling qualities, 
Dr. Parker is winning a good position 
among the people of Littleton. He is 
a member of the Vermont Homeo- 
pathic Medical society, the I. O. O. F. 
and K. of P. His residence and office 
are No. 168 Main street. 



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Harrington & Co. 

Under the present system of order 
and delivery of goods, the grocery man 
is bruuglit into close contact with all 
the people, and his success largelj' de- 
pends upon his personal qualities. That 
.1. ,1. and T. W. Harrington have not 
mistaken their vocation is shown by 
the steadily increasing volume of their 
business during these hard times, and 
in the face o f a close competition. 
They are natives of Loudon, N. H. 
Orphaned in childhood they became 
the architects of their own fortunes 
and cultivated a natural aptitude for 
mercantile life. James clerked seven 
years for a merchant in his native 



who furnish them with a good sup- 
plj' of fresh butter, eggs, maple sugar 
and vegetables. Littleton has a hospi- 
table welcome for such men as the 
Harrington's who win success by merit. 



WOODRUFF BROS. 



The scriptural injunction, man can- 
not live by bread alone, is a recognized 
fact as applied to material affairs. The 
man who daily supplies a choice and 
reasonable variety of meats at the 
doors, and at reasonable rates, is really 
a public benefactor. The city market 
is centrally located in Bellows Block, 
near Thayer's Hotel, and the samples' 
in its show window are enough to 



WARREN W. LOVEJOY. 

The subject of this sketch is a srion 
of a formerly very numerous family in 
Littleton. His father, Jonathan ¥. 
Lovejoy, was a life-long resident of 
Littleton, and here reared a family of 
seven children. Three of the sons 
were gallant soldiers of the Union, 
Charles W. and Warren W., in the 
so-called First Rhode Island cavalry, 
and Ira W. in the 33d Massachusetts. 
Warren Lovejoy enlisted at the age of 
17 and served steadily until in the 
battle of Rapidan Station, a spent 
shell blew off his right arm and a por- 
tion of his hip, inflicting almost mortal 
injuries. With an amputated arm and 








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town, came to Littleton in September 
'94 and engaged in the grocery trade 
with H. D. Green in the old South- 
worth store. After a year and a half 
li e bought his partner's interest and 
soon after formed the present firm. T. 
W. Harrington had the benefit of sev- 
eral years experience with the great 
Boston house of Cobb, Bates & Yerxa. 
Harrington & Co. occupy a large sales 
loom in McCoy ]>lock, and carry a 
good stock of general groceries, fruits, 
farm produce and provisions, which 
are sold at "97 prices. They run two 
daily delivery teams to all parts of the 
village and Apthorp. They conduct a 
large barter trade with the farmers, 



HARRINGTON & CO.'S GROCERY STORE. 

tempt the appetite of an epicure. It is 
conducted by J. E. and D. L. Wood- 
ruff, who are natives of Burke, Vt. J. 
E. Woodruff has had 15 years experi- 
ence in the meat business, mostly in 
the west, and started the business here 
two years ago. D. L. has travelled 
quite extensively in the south and came 
to Bethlehem two years ago, where he 
married a daughter of Landlord Rowe 
of the Central House. He opened a 
fish market, and a daily fish cart is run 
in the season which largely supplies 
the summer hotels. Woodruffs handle 
the best western beef, and their order 
and delivery wagons are daily visitors 
in the homes of Littleton. 



mangled hip he lay three days in a 
tent almost uncared for, and for four 
months his strong constitution fought 
with death, at close quarters, and 
finally conquered. He returned to the 
paternal farm where he has lived 
almost half a century, and where he 
attended the declining years of his 
aged parents. Four years ago he 
began selling milk from one cow, now 
he has 18 grade Jerseys. His little 
farm of 30 acres, with eight acres of 
mowing, cuts about 24 tons of hay. 
Mr. Lovejoy and his excellent wife, 
nee Emma E. Brooks, of this town, are 
highlj' esteemed in this community 
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of the G. A. R., a member of the Con- 
gregational church and superintemlent 
of the Sunday school, and withal a 
genial, true hearted gentleman. 



A. A. ONTHANK 
has recently moved a nice fresh stock 
of boots and shoes into Boylston block, 
Main street, and proposes to sell 
straight goods at close prices. He has 
been engaged in the manufacture and 
jobbing of boots and shoes for fifteen 
years, and of course is a keen con- 
noisseur of foot gear, and well posted 




in every feature of the business. Our 
people will find him a genial gentle- 
man, and an obliging salesman. His 
claim upon the public is strictly one of 
business interest, and he will offer a 
clean stock with a large variety, at bed- 
rock prices. Mr. Onthank is a son-in- 
law of Solon Simonds, chief of police, 
and Mrs. Simonds will occupy one half 
of the store with her select stock of 
millinery and fancy goods. 



Chiswick lodge, K. of p. 

This lodge was instituted in 1895 
with 36 charter members, but has now 
about twice that number. Regular 
conventions are held every Tuesday 
night in their Castle Hall in Tilton 
Block. The officers of the lodge are : 
Harry F. Howe, C. C. ; Arthur W. 
Gilbert, V. C. ; L. ,T. Crane, prelate ; 
A. J. Bedell, M. of A. ; J. A. Fogg, M. 
of W. ; E. B. Lynch, M. of E. ; E. G. 
Ransome, M. of F. ; L. J. Crane, K. of 
R. S. 



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nal from now until April, 1899. for 
only $1. News that is news ()rinted 
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Doughnuts 
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Edson & Bailey. 

The old depot store is one of the 
prominent local landmarks which con- 
nect the past generation with the 
present. For nioie than sixty years 
tills store has been a great center of 
iieneral trade, a scene of bustling com- 
mercial activity. The main building 
was erected, and the business founded 
away back in 1836 by Col. Cyrus East- 
man and Mr. Colby, and for iiearly 
lialt a century the name oi Eastman 
was at the head of this great house, 
t'l rough several changes in membership 
of the firm. In 1S8'2 ihe firm 
became Edson, Bailey ct Kat- 
oii, and four years later Edson 
& Bailey. The stock is tlie 
most coiiipreliensive of any in 
town and in many of its 
features is both wholesale and 
retail. It includes Hour, grain, 
groceries, general hardware, 
blacksmiths' supplies, paints 
and oils, stoves, wooden and 
hollow ware, agricultural im- 
plements, salt, lime and ce- 
ment. In 1S91 a grist mill 
was put in, which, under the 
efficient management of A. V. 
Cutting, is a great convenience 
in the grain business. The 
demands of the business re- 
(juire the constant use of two 
delivery teams. The main 
building, 50 feet square, util- 
izes four stories, giving a floor 
space of over 10,000 feet. All 
heavy goods are orderd in car- 
load lots. 

George A. Edson is a son 
of Samuel -Alden Edson, many 
years a ])roniinent business 
ness man of Littleton. Mr. Edson was 
born in Littleton 45 years ago, has 
always resided here, and is in every 
sense one of the solid men of the town. 
He began clerking for his father, later 
engaged in the boot and shoe trade, 
and in the meat business with J. S. 
P'rye. For several years Mr. Edson 
has been town treasurer. He married 
Clara M. Longley of Massachusetts. 
James Henry Bailey was born in Lit- 
tleton in LS44, but moved in early 



childhood witli his j)arciits to Concord, 
Vt. lie left home at 16, came to Lit- 
tleton, and clerked for his uncle, AVill- 
iam Bailey. Later he was engaged in 
the same capacity at Danville and 
Wells Itiver, Vt., and Lebanon, and at 
Littleton, from 1874 to 188'2 for C. & 
C. F. Eastman, when he became a 
member of the firm of Edson & Bailey. 
He married Maiy M. Clough in 1881. 
Mr. Bailey has been called by his fel- 
low townsmen to the positions of 
selectman and town treasurer, and is 
at present village treasurer and a ,ij. 




CATHOLIC CHURCH. 

rector in the Savings and National 
banks. He has climbed the golden 
stairs of masonry, is a member of 
Burns Lodge, St. Andrews Clia])ter, 
Omega Council, St. Gerard Conimand- 
ery and E. A. Kaymond Consistory. 
The tirm name, Edson & Baih'y, is a 
synonym for business capacity and in- 
tegrity. 

MRS. T. E. PARKER. 
There are several millinery estab- 
lishments in Littleton, but no one of 



them is belter known than thiit of Mrs. 
Parker. The business is of long and 
honorable standing, was founded by 
Mrs. J. A. Stevens, but since 1889 has 
been conducted by Mrs. Parker. Her 
store is centrally located, has an area 
of about 1000 square feet, and contains 
a very attractive assortment of tine 
millinery and fancy goods, made up of 
a full selection of staple articles, as 
well as a tastefully chosen stock of the 
latest fashionable novelties. Mrs. Par- 
ker is a careful and experienced buyer, 
and her patrons are sure to obtain 
goods at as low a rate as can 
be named on articles of equal 
merit. The leading depart- 
ment of the business is that 
devoted to custom work, em- 
ployment being given to three 
assistants during the season. 
Mrs. Parker gives particular 
attention to ladies' hair work, 
and is prepared to take orders 
for the same. She gives her 
careful, personal attention to 
all work, and is deservedly 
securing an excellent patron- 
age. This is due very largely 
to a well grounded confidence 
in her taste, ability and fair 
dealing, attested by a long and 
■vtended experience. No ef- 
fort is spared to keej) in touch 
w ith the latest styles and best 
models in every department. 
Mild with what success is 
liowii by the appreciation of 
wideand select patronage. 

J. D. Campbell. 

Mr. Campbell came to Lit- 
tleton last April. He served 
a regular apprenticeship at the tail- 
or's trade, has had over twenty years 
experience, much of the time in city 
trade, keeps in touch with the latest 
styles, and is prepared to guarantee 
satisfaction in workmanship and ma- 
terials. The ])ul)lic is cordially invi- 
ted to call and inspect his stock and 
work, in handsome quarters in Rounse- 
vel Block, under the Kki'UBLIc-.Iouk- 
XAL office, Main street. No better ser- 
vice can be had in this section. 



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Remly S. Sidelinger 
Wasboin in llocklaiid, Me., January 
14, 18.58, of German stock that landed 
in Waldoboro in 1743. He came to 
the Granite State in 1892 as editor of 
the Gorham Mountaineer. His life as 
craftsman, soldier, journalist, and 




preacher would be interesting reading, 
but, with true modesty, he refrains 
from appearing before our readers as 
a hero. He is known here chiefly as 
proprietor of "Side- 
linger's German Lo- 
tion." It is a wonder- 
ful article for the hair, 
scalp, skin, and com- 
plexion, discovered by 
his grandmother half 
a century ago. Many 
of Littleton's best 
known citizens join 
with him in saying 
that her discovery has 
been a boon to human- 
ity, as it is found to 
be almost an indis- 
pensable toilet article, 
when one has <mce 
"iven it a trial. 



dences of good management and pros- 
perity evinced by their neat and hand- 
some carriages and harnesses, and 
stj'lish well groomed horses. They are 
natives of Concord, Vt., sons of Jacob 
Richardson, a highly respected citizen 
of that town. Fred E. married Letie, 
and Frank M., Theda, daughters of L-a 
Lewis of Concord. F. M. Richardson, 
after a successful e.^perience of one 
year as clerk in the Stewart house at 
Island Pond, and two years in the 
Littleton house, wa» for a j'ear manager 
of the Littleton house. The present 
firm was formed in 1891 when they 
purchased their stable and also for two 
years conducted the Littleton house. 
During the past four years they have 
given their entire attention to the 
livery business with increasing success. 
They conduct one of the largest and 
best appointed livery stables in New 
England, employing 25 horses through- 
out the year, and 35 during the sum- 
mer season. In carriages they are 
prepared to furnish anything from a 
six-in-hand tally-ho coach to a light 
single sulky. They have some very 
stylish hitch ups, including a pair of 
Rocky Mountain drivers. They have 
charge and furnish teams for the town 



straw. They own a ICU-acre farm in 
Concord. F. .M. Richardson is one of 
the village commissioners and secretary 
and treasurer of the Littleton Driving 
Park Association, of which F. E. is a 
director. 



L. E. Bedell 
Is a Jeffersonian by birth, a Littletonian 
by choice, and a liveryman by occupa- 
tion. "He was not always tlius." For 
many years Mr. Bedell perambulated 
the hills and valleys of nortliern New 





L. E. BEDELL'S LIVERY STABLE. 

Hampshire, in the employ of A. L. 
Bailey and others, gladening the hearts 
and relieving the pocket books of the 
people, by the introduction of pianos 
and organs. Do you 
want a good livery 
team for pleasure or 
profit? Bedell will be 
pleased to furnish you 
a single or double rig, 
a three seated surrey, 
or a four or six-in- 
hand at reasonable 
rates. He has five 
well groomed spans in 
his stable on Jackson 
street, near the Re- 

PUBLIC-JoUKX AL of- 
fice. 



F. E. & F. M. RICHARDSON. 

It was with feelings of genuine 
pleasure that we strolled through the 
well appointed stable of the liichard- 
son Brothers, and noted the many evi- 



F. E. & F. M. RICHARDSON-S LIVERY STABLE. 

hearse. They are perfectly familiar 
with all points of scenic and historic 
interest, and have recently engaged 
the services of M. A. Eaton, who is 
well known to the traveling public. 
They take boarders, and sell hay and 



J. B. KITCHEN. 
J. B. Kitchen has 
been nine years in 
the photograph business in Littleton, 
and his \vork speaks for itself and for 
him. He has had 22 years experience, 
and can furnish pbolograplis of all 
styles and grades. He is located in 
Tilton Block, over the postoffice. 



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CARANAC buck glove CO. 

Buckskin gloves, an Anu'rican prod- 
uct, liave buen extcnsivcl^y in;iniifac- 
tiu-i'il in several states, but tlie leadinu; 
and representative iirni now engaged 
in their pcoduction in this country is 
unquestionably tiie Saranac Buck 
(tIovc Co., of Littleton. It has grown 
in a few years from tlie most humble 
l)eginnings to its present ample dimen- 
sions, as the most important industry 
of the village, with an annual produc- 
tion of 50,000 dozen pairs of gloves. 
This unparalleled success has been 
achieved by the enterprise of the pro- 
prietors in the adoption of improved 



glove far superior to all others in the 
re(juisites of pliability, durability ami 
strength. They are inpervious to 
water and will not stiffen by wetting. 
Tliis company has the entire control of 
the right to manufacture by the patent 
process called Saranac, and their goods 
are 8hi|)ped diiect from the factory. 
They also make a glove by a somewhat 
rlifferent process that is heat resisting 
and is not affected by steam or hot 
irons, and is particularly adapted to 
the use of railroad men. H. H. Porter, 
a former employe, invented and paten- 
ted a convenient glove fastener which 
is a "snap." Ira Parker has been the 
master spirit of this enterprise from its 



came to this country 20 years ago. 
He commenced at the bottom of the 
ladder, and by industry and capacity 
worked his way n\) step by step, be- 
coming so thoroughly mastei' oi every 
detail of the business that on the re- 
tirement last year of Ira Parker, the 
founder of this enter])rise, from the ac- 
tive management and suj)ervision, Mr. 
Langford was appointed by his special 
request. He is a representative Eng- 
lish American, and emphatically a self- 
made man. He married Miss Blanche 
Libbey, daughter of II. C. Libbej'. 
The location of this great industry on 
the Ammonoosuc, near the center of 
the village, is on the site of the large 








M^ 




methods, which have secured superioi- 
productions. Jiy the new method of 
tanning, which preserves the excellent 
(juality of the skins, a soft, pliable 
glove is produced which surpasses for 
durability any ever before made. In 
the old method of tanning, the grain 
was removed. The process adopted 
by this company has overcome the for- 
mer ditliculties, and bids fair to revolu- 
tionize all previous methods. 

In 1866, Ira Parker, of Littleton, 
began experiments to test the adapt- 
ability of the Page process to the 
preparation of leather for gloves. His 
researches were rewarded with great 
success, and he was able to produce a 



SARANAC GLOVE WORKS. 

inception. He was the proprietor un- 
til 1875, when the firm of Ira Parker 
& Co. was formed which was suc- 
ceeded in 1889 by the Saranac Glove 
Co., incorporated with a capital of 
8125,000, with Ira Parker as general 
manager. The present officers are : 
president, II. C. Libbey, an extensive 
lumber dealer of Lisbon, N. II. ; vice- 
jiresident, Dr. T. E. Sanger ; treasurer, 
Ira Parker; general, manager, Robert 
Langfoid. The directors are the offi- 
cers already named and Charles Park- 
er, Lewis H. Parker, and George K, 
Armstrong, one of the salesmen. Rob- 
ert C. Langford, the efficient general 
manager, is a native of England, but 



woollen mills which burned in 1888 
The present tannery was built the next 
year, and is 65 by 200 feet, three stories 
and a basement. The glove manufac- 
tory is 75 by 175 and three stories 
in height. The propelling powers of 
this great plant consist of a 210 horse- 
power engine of Cycloidal Atlas make, 
of a 135 horse-power water wheel for 
the tannery, and of a 40 horse-power 
wheel for running the stitching ma- 
chines, also two 100 horse-power boil- 
ers. 

The company has an electric light 
plant that supplies 700 lights, running 
two dynamos. It is highly interesting 
to enter the great tannery where 40 



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men are employed, observe the laby- 
rinth of powerful machinery, and trace 
the successive processes by which crude 
hides are converted into elegant and 
durable gloves, but space forbids more 
than an outline. The skins arc first put 
into vats containing water, and soaked 
until thoroughly soft when they are 
whirled in great revolving drums and 
still further softened before going into 
the lime vats. After tanning they are 
passed through a splitting machine, 
with a daily capacity of 1200 skins, 
which leaves them of uniform thick- 
ness. They are then smoothed on buff- 
ing wheels, colored by various chemi- 
cals and analine dyes, and elevated to 
the drying rooms which are thoroughly 
equipped with steam pipes to facilitate 
the drying. The tanning and coloring 
process occupies from two to three 
weeks, and the principal of several in- 
gredients used in tanning is gambler, 
an eastern product. They are staked 
or stretched when they reach the cut- 
ting room, then classified and cut by a 
working force of 40 men, using dies 
introduced about 1880. The stitching 
is largely performed by ladies. The 
stitching machines for making gloves 
were introduced in 1885. Formerly all 
of the cutting and stitching was done 
by hand. After making, the gloves are 
buttoned, laid off and treed on brass 
hands filled with steam. Each glove 
is carefully inspected by an expert to 
detect imperfections, when they are 
assorted and classified according to 
style, quality, and size, and packed in 
pasteboard boxes, which are manu- 
factured by the company, and are ready 
for shipment direct to dealers. Fully 
three-fourths of the gloves are made of 
buck skin, many of which are lined 
with lamb skin of different styles which 
are obtained from Europe. 

The plant is thoroughl}' equip])ed 
with every modern convenience. A 
well filled store house capable of hold- 
ing 5000 skins is near the mill, to 
which annually come about two-thirds 
of all the deer skins produced in the 
West and North-west, besides many 
from other localities. Deer from India, 
otter from British America, lamb skins 
from Europe ; thus the ends of the 



earth arc brought together to make 
Saranac gloves. The facilities of the 
company enable them to promptly fill 
all orders, some amounting to many 
thousand dollars. The entire output 
is handled by the jobbing trade. The 
importance of this great industry to 
the business interests of Littleton is 
seen in the wide reputation of the 
Saranac and steam proof goods, and 
can scarcely be over estimated. 



RENFREW Bros. 
Prominent among Littleton's hus- 
tling young business men are the 
Renfrew Brothers, dealers in men's 
and boys' clothing and furnishings, 
hats and caps. John S. and Irvin C. 
Renfrew, sons of .John and Maria 
Harvey Renfrew, are natives of Cale- 
donia county, Vt. The Renfrews 




RENFREW BROS.' STORE. 

were among the earliest of the staunch 
Scotch settlers of Ryegate, Vt. John 
S. took a course at the Troy Business 
college and then received two years of 
practical experience in the clothing 
store of Bellows & Son. He was then 
engaged for two years with a large 
clothing house in Boston, after which 
he was head clerk for Bellows it Son. 
I. C Renfrew attended Peacham Acad- 
emy under Hon. C. A. Bunker, and at 
the age of 17 opened a job printing 
office and stationery store at South 
Ryegate, which he conducted success- 
fully for five years. He then recuper- 
ated his somewhat impaired health by 
service as porter at the Oak Hill house. 
Renfrew Bros, engaged in the clothing 
business in September, 1890, at first, 
and for five years, in the Smillie block. 



In 1895 they located in their present 
spacious quarters in the Bugbee block. 
Their business has steadily increased 
and their stock has doubled till it is now 
one of the largest and best in northern 
New Hampshire. They have adopted 
the policy of closing out all unsalable 
goods each year at prices that command 
a sale. John S. married Luella, daugh- 
ter of Levi Barnard of Lunenburg, 
and Irvin C. married Ilattie J., daugh- 
ter of Henry G. liollins of Newbury. 
Both families are blessed with two 
daughters and a son. 



benj. f. page. M. D. 
The subject of this sketch is a Little- 
tonian by birth, and later a resident 
and practitioner, but his boj'hood and 
school days were spent in Burke, Vt. 
His father was Benj. Page, and Hon. 
S. B. Page, of Woodsville, is an elder 
brother. Dr. Page completed his 
academic training at Newbury Semin- 
ary, then in its palmy days. He be- 
gan reading medicine in the office of 
Dr. H. L. Watson, then of Newbury, 
and continued his reading with Dr. 
Charles H. Boynton, of Lisbon, whom 
he also assisted in practice. Dr. Page 
enjoyed the wholesome experience of 
teaching, which also contributed largely 
to his educational expenses. He pur- 
sued three courses of medical study at 
U. V. M., from which he graduated in 
18t)7 at the age of "24. He married 
Caroline, daughter of John, and sister 
of Maj. Evarts Farr, and settled in 
practice in Lisbon for about five years. 
He then moved to East St. Johnsbury 
where he practiced nine years, build- 
ing up quite an extensive clientage 
some of w'hich he still retains. Since 
1881 he has practiced and resided in 
Littleton. Dr. Page is a member of 
the White Mountain Medical Society, 
and also of Burns Lodge, F. it A. M. 
He has two children living, Dr. .John 
M. Page of this town, and Elizabeth 
C. Page, a student at .Mount Holyoke 
Seminary. 



DR. JOHN M. PAGE. 
John M. Page was born in Lisbon 
in 1871. He is a son of Dr. B. F., and 
Caroline Farr Page of this town, and 



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his later school days were spent in the 
Littleton High school from whicli he 
graduated with credit, lie began read- 
ing medicine with his father, and pros- 
ecuted his studies at the medical de- 
partment of U. V. M. with such ability 
that at his graduation in 1893, he won 
an honorary degree as making one of 
the five best records of scholarship of 
his class. He naturally chose his native 
town as the scene of his professional 
labors. His office is in the Robinson 
bUick. Ur. Page is only on the thresh- 
old of his career, but with an excellent 
heredity, a buoyant temperament and 
tiiorough scholarship we predict for 
him a successful career. He is a mem- 
ber of the White Mountain Medical 
Society and of Burns Lodge F. & A. M. 



as a thoroughly reliable and skillful 
workman, and his line of business is a 
great convenience to the wheelmen of 



G. H. Merrill 
Is a good representative of the ingen- 
ious, industrious Yankee mechanic. 
He was born in Landaff, X. H., 48 
years ago, and his early life was spent 
in that town. He married a daughter 
of ,T. F. iSIorse of Easton, and in com- 
pany with his tather-in-law erected a 
steam saw mill and operated it several 
years. Some 20 years 
ago he came to Little- 
ton and for several 
years conducted a ma- 
chine and repair shop. 
When the Saranac 
(iiove company intro- 
duced their machinery, 
Mr. Merrill's services 
were secured for tak- 
ing charge of the ma- 
chinery, and the in- 
struction of new hands 
in its operation, where 
his services were ac- 
ceptably retained some 
di.zen years. In 1893 
he started his present 
business of general 
machine and repair 
shop for light work, 
near Opera Block, 
Main street. He does 
almost everything in this line but 
his specialty is tiie repair of bicycles, 
sewing machines, guns and revolvers. 
Naturally ingenious, he is well known 




this section. lie carries a full line of 
bicycle supplies, thus being able to 
repair wheels at short notice and sav- 
ing the expense of sending them away. 
His only child, Harry A., is the efficient 
book-keeper for Parker Bros. & Co. 



just completed at a cost of $!3'2,000. 
The proprietor is a Hollander by de- 
scent, a native of So. Framingham, 
Mass., and about 30 years of age. He 
was born and bred a gardener. After 
leaving the high school of his native 
city he went to Holland, and graduated 
in .1889 from the agricultural college. 
He returned to Massachusetts and en- 
gaged in the gardening and green- 
house business with his father until in 
1895 he came to Littleton and took 
charge of the greenhouses of Ira Par- 
ker for one year, and then bought (he 
G. W. Richardson homestead and has 
here erected his two greenhouses, 
each 20 bj' 100 feet. His specialties 
are cucumbers, asparagus, celery and 
tomatoes. He has just commenced to 
sell his cucumbers, which are sent 
direct and by express to the jobbing 
trade. He personally supervises the 
packing and guarantees safe delivery. 
It is an interesting sight, in this sub- 
arctic winter, to see those luxuriant 
jjlants, bending with their ripening 
fruitage, ready to supply the epicurean 
tables of the great cities. 




A. A VOORNEVELD'S GREENHOUSES. 
A. A. VOORNEVELD. 
The most recent, and certainly a 
most valuable enterprise in Littleton, 
the greenhouse of A. A. Voorneveld, is 



E. FLINT, JEWEJLER. 
Mr. Flint is today 
the senior merchant of 
the town of Littleton 
who has been continu- 
ously in the same 
business. He is a na- 
tive of Massachusetts, 
born in 1845, and 
commenced learning 
the watch-maker's 
trade at the age of 
seventeen. In 1870 
he located in business 
in Littleton, beginning 
with a small stock but 
adding new features 
from time to time as 
his trade and capital 
increased, until he has 
now established a sub- 
stantial business. In 
1882 he entered his 
present handsome^; and spacious quar- 
ters in the then newly erected Tilton 
Opera Block. Mr. Flint's extensive 
stock of watches, jewelry and silver 



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ware is very tastefully and convenient- 
ly displayed in elegant cases. He also 
carries a good line of camera goods, 
pocket cutlery and optical supplies, 
havingsuitable arrangements fortesting 
eyesight, guns, ammunition and sports- 
men's supplies. The range of articles 
in each line is from the plainest to the 




more elaborate and elegant with cor- 
responding prices to suit the times. 
Mr. Flint has a costly regulator and 
his store is the place to ascertain the 
standard time. The repair of watches 
and clocks is promptly attended to 
with Mr. F. M. Hunker as a skillful 
assistant. Mr. Flint's long and suc- 
cessful experience has made him es- 
pecially familiar with the public taste 
and the requirements of trade, and the 
public have learned to rely implicitly 
on his judgment and integrity. He is 
identified with both of the great frater- 
nities and is the Chief Patriarch of 
Littleton Encampment, I. O. O. F. 



FITZGERALD & BURNHAM. 

At Fitzgerald is a native and life- 
long resident of Littleton, and for 45 
years has followed the same business 
at his present stand, and is without 
doubt the senior continuous business 
man in the village. When a young 
man of 23 he bought the sash and blind 
factory of Kimball ifc Wallace, and was 
in company with L. T. Dow 2'2 years. 
They ilid a very extensive business, 



employing nearly 30 hands, and fur- 
nished the doors, sash and blinds for 
the White Mountain hotels. The mill 
was burned in 'G"J, but the present 
building, 40 by 55, was soon erected. 
H. B. Burnham became a partner in 
1881. They manufacture and deal in 
doors, sash, blinds, and window frames, 
and make to order mouldings, brack- 
ets, eave spouts, hard wood flooring 
and sheathing, and do planing, match- 
ing, and scroll sawing. They keep on 
hand a stock of stair newels, banisters 
and stair rails. H. B. Burnham is a 
native of Littleton, a carpenter and 
joiner by trade, and served three years 
in the Civil War in the 13th New 
Hampshire regiment. 



JAMES H. SMALLEY 
is one of the live progressive mer- 
chants of Littleton, and his store is 
headquarters in this section for every- 
thing in the line of straps and buckles, 
and horse and carriage furnishings. 
He has for sale the finest lot of strictly 
first class hand-made driving harnesses 
we have seen for many a day. He also 
has a cheaper grade of sale harnesses 
and an extensive stock of trunks and 
valises which he is prepared to ex- 
change for silver certificates, or gilt 
edge promissory notes on short time. 
He conducts a harness shop assisted by 




workmanlike manner, and at call again 
prices. James H. Smalley was born 
in Lebanon in 1838, where he attended 
school and learned the harness busi- 
ness. He is a railroader from way 
back. He rode the locomotive up to 
Wells River and for two years did the 
switching in the yard. In the days of 
the old White Mountain railroad he 
was a fireman for Ike Sanborn on the 
Mountain Maid and other machines of 
blessed memory. Later he was in the 
harness business with Truenian Stev- 
ens. In the season of mountain travel 
Smalley was many years the dauntless 
admiral of the fleet on Echo Lake. 
During the past dozen years he has 
given exclusive attention to the har- 
ness business. He has enlarged his 
block on Main street to the three-story 
altitude, and is all ready for the boom 
which is sure to come. Mr. Smalley 
works and deals upon the square. 



his son, Edwin B., and a couple of 
good workmen, and is pi'epared to do 
new work or repairing in prompt, 



Lane & Bailey. 

Centrally and conspicuously located 
in Opera Block is the Opera Cloth- 
ing Company, conducted by Lane «fe 
Bailey. This business was founded in 
1881 by G. E. Lane, a brother of the 
partner, who sold to the present pro- 
prietors in 1890. They carrj' a heavy 
stock of men's clothing, furnishings, 
hats and caps. Both partners are keen 
connoisseurs of clothing, reliable deal- 
ers and accomplished salesmen. Lane 
& Bailey are to be reckoned with by 
competitors as well as customers. 

Charles M. Lane was born and bred 
on a strong and stony Lunenburg farm, 
where he learned the value of time 
and money, but concluded that he 
could better employ his time and earn 
his money, and fulfill his mission of 
doing good, elsewhere. Accordingly 
he went to Lancaster and clerked in a 
large clothing house from 1879 until 
the formation of this firm. 

E. C. Bailey was born in Newburj', 
Vt., in 18fi"2, a son of E. F. Bailey, and 
was reared upon a farm. His groat, 
great grandfather was General Jacob 
Bailey, the original proprietor of the 
town, and the bright particular star in 
Newbury's galaxy of Revolutionary 
heroes. His son. Col. John Bailey, 



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was a distiiiguishod olticer of the Green 
Mountain Boys, and the family con- 
tributed largely to the patriotic cause. 
E. C. Bailey does not bank on ancestry, 
but on clothing, and stands squarely 
about 200 pounds on his own shoe 
leatlior. lie also sought employment 
in Lancaster, at first in telegraphy, but 
later and for seven years with the 
great firm of Kent it Son. 

.Messrs. Lane ife Bailey are too well 
known to the business public of Little- 
ton and vicinity to need any special 
recommendations. Their motto is : 
"Square dealing and fair prices," and 
they live up to it, too. 



F. A. WATSON & Co. 

Littleton has long been known as an 
advantageous purcliasing center, and 
the town is now rapidly increasing its 
reputation in this respect, for at pres- 
ent new and standard goods can be 
biiught here cheaper than ever before. 
None of the recently added enterprises 
in town is more worthy of praise and 
support than F. A. Watson & Co., and 
we are pleased to say that they are 
getting both. They occupy spacious 
and newly finished quarters in Parker 
lilock, next door to Thayer's Hotel. 
They carry a choice and fresh stock of 
standard and fancy groceries, fruits, 
tobacco, canned goods and confection- 
ery, and tiieir store is as neat and tidy 
as a lady's parlor. Both Mr. Watson 
and his partner, Mr. Ide, are live men, 
and devote themselves closely to busi- 
ness. Their cfhcient clerk is Mr. E. E. 
Piurnham. 

F. A. Watson is a native of Littleton 
and is a son-in-law of Mr. Ide. Joseph 
ide was a well-known tanner and citi- 
zen of Waterford, and the Ides are an 
extensive and very prominent family 
of Tioitliern Vermont. 



H. A. JACKMAN. 
The people of Littleton can have no 
cause for complaint in the service of 
their meats, for the two markets are in 
the hands of hustling young men. H. 
A. Jackman is a native of Bath, but 
has been a resident of Littleton most 
of the time for the past fifteen years. 
He has had six or eight years experi- 



ence in the meat business, and uiuler- 
stands it to the tenth decimal point. 
He started his present market last 
January, in Opera Block, and is doing 
a lively business on the basis of large 
sales, quick returns, and small profits. 
He handles both native and western 
beef, and every variety of meat usually 
found in a first-class market. He is 
prepared to cater successfully to all 
kinds of trade, and is in a position to 
fill all orders at short notice, and at 
the lowest market rates. His cart 
makes the daily circuit of Littleton 
and Apthorp, under the able care of L. 
F. Bean. 



church. He has made a specialty of 
surgery. He has been health officer of 
the town and is a member of the K. of 
P. and of Burns Lodge, F. & A. M., 
and readily adapts himself to all classes. 



William J. Beattie, M. D. 
The subject of this sketch was born 
in Ryegate, Vt., in 1864, a son of Rev. 
.James M., and Margaret Nelson Beattie. 
He is of thorough bred Scotch lineage, 
and inherits the powerful physique, 
moral fibre, and inflexible perseverance 
of the race. His father, though born 
in Newburgh, N. Y., received bis theo- 
logical training at Edinburgh Univer- 
sity. Lie became a prominent theo- 
logian of the Covenantes faith, and en- 
joyed in Ryegate a continuous pastorate 
of more than 40 years. He was also 
intimately identified with the educa- 
tional interests of his section as a 
trustee of Peacham Academy and as 
town superintendent of the schools of 
Ryegate for many years. William J. 
Beattie is one of a family of six child- 
'en, of whom a V)rother, Wilson, and a 
sister survive, and with them at Rye- 
gate resides his mother. William J. 
was educated at Peacham and St. 
Johnsbury Academies. He commenced 
reading medicine in 18S4, while at- 
tending the Academy, in the office of 
Dr. Xewell, of St. Johnsbury. The 
next year he entered Bellevue Medical 
IIosj)ital College, of New York, from 
which he graduated in 1889, mean- 
while serving one year in the hospital 
by appointment. He came to Littleton 
in April, 1890, soon married Elizabeth 
R., daughter of the late Dr. C. M. 
Tuttle, and has since pursued his pro- 
fession here with great energy and suc- 
cess. His office is in his handsome 
residence next to the Congregational 



FRANK I. Parker. 
In this age of unrest and dismem- 
berment, it is rare to find a family 
whose successive generations have 
enjoyed the solid advantages of a per- 
manent home. Frank I. Parker is the 
best, if not the only representative in 
town of that idea. His great grand- 
father, Jonathan Parker, came to Lit- 
tleton in 1802, from Wetherstield, 
Conn., and settled on the fine Amnio- 
noosuc valley farm, which has since 
been the home of four generations of 
his descendents. Isaac, the son of the 




pioneer, Luther Adams the grandson, 
and Frank I., the present euterprising 
owner of the homestead and his child- 
ren have here found a home. Isaac 
married Anna, daughter of Elkanah 
Iloskins, a Revolutionary soldier. Lu- 
ther A. married Lydia W. Chamberlain, 
and their two children are Frank I. 
and Ann Elizabeth, Mrs. Frank Shej)- 
ard. Frank I. was born in ISTiO, and 
married Susan E. Jones and after her 
death Harriett C. Orr, by whom he 
has two children, Albert L. and Susie 
May. Mr. Parker is one of the lead- 
ing farmers of Littleton, and conducts 
a large milk ranch with about 85 cows. 
He has a tine sugar orchard of 1100 



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trees, and puts up a lirst-class article 
of maple honey, which retails well in 
the village. His farm of 300 acres, 
with a 100 acre back lot, is located 
one mile from the village, and contains 
some 75 acres of the best meadow land 
in town, lying on both sides of the 
river. Grass is king although several 
acres are usually in corn. The farm 
buildings are commodious and pleas- 
antly located. Mr. Parker is on the 
alert for improvements and keeps 
things moving on the old homestead. 
He is a Congregationalist, and a Re- 
publican in politics. Mr. Parker has 
avoided rather than sought public 
iiffice, but has served as supervisor and 
is one of the town's representatives to 
the General Court. 



1*v 




THE FARR family. 
For nearly a century the name of 
Farr has been familiar and prominent 
in the annals of Littleton. John Farr 
was a son of Noah, one of the half- 
dozen brothers who came to Littleton 
early in the century from Chesterfield, 
N. H. He was live years deputy sher- 
iff, where he obtained some knowledge 
of letjal forms, and late in life read law, 
and practiced with Charles W. Rand, 
with William J. Bellows, and, later, 
alone. He united good legal judgment 
with sterling integri- 
ty, and ; ;lministered 
on manj estates. He 
was thfc first presi- 
dent of the Little- 
ton National Bank, a 
position which he 
held for many years, 
lie reared a family 
of seven children, 
gave them all good 
educations, and died 
in 1>!9'2 at the mature age of 82 years. 
Of the four sons, two are living: John, 
novs' of Orlando, Fla., and Charles A., 
a former merchant of Littleton. 

George Farr enlisted and was made 
captain of Cor D., 13th New Hamp- 
shire Volunteers, and was severely 
wounded at the battle of Cold Harbor. 
He returned to Littleton after nearly 
three years service, and tor 21 years 
was connected with the Oak Hill 




GEORGE FARR. 



House, where he died suddenly in 1895. 
In 1886, Capt. Farr was commander of 
the Department of New Hampshire, G. 
A. R. 

Maj.EvartsW. Farrwasborn in 1840. 
He was educated at the Thetford Acad- 
emy. At the age of 20 he enlisted, the 
first volunteer from Littleton, and was 
elected lieutenant and then captain of 
his company, and lost an arm at Wil- 
liamsburg. He was later commissioned 
major in the 11th New Hampshire 
Volunteers. After three years gallant 
service he returned to Littleton, where 
he won a high standing in the legal 
profession, served as county solicitor, 
as assessor of internal revenue, and in 
the governor's council, was elected to 
the 46th congress and re-elected from 
the third district, but his brilliant 
career was terminated by his early 
death at the age of forty. 

Charles A. Farr, the youngest son, 

was born in 1.S48, . ^ 

and was educated at 
Kimball Union Acad- 
emy. He clerked 
several years in this 
vicinity, and was in 
trade in Littleton, 
either by himself or 
with partners, for 
more than a score of 
years until 1898. He 
is now representing 
the National Life Insurance Co., of 
Montpelier, Vt., and the Manufactur- 
ers' and Merchants' and German Fire 
Insurance companies, of Pittsburg, Pa. 
Mr. Farr is a genial and obliging gen- 
tleman, and a loyal son of Littleton. 




CHAS A. FARR. 



1869 aiid made his first settlement at a 
mission which he had organized at 
South Kingston. After preaching two 
years each at Candia, and Newfield, he 
went to Old Orchard to recuperate his 
wife's health, and there carried on gos- 
pel work for three and a half years in 
his own charge, meanwhile serving as 
postmaster and conducting a printing 
business. Two flourishing churches 
have been formed from this field. Mr. 



REV. J. B. Merrill 
was born at Atkinson, N. H., in 1846. 
Naturally ingenious, he picked up in 
his boyhood a working knowledge of 
the carpenter's trade, which he used as 
a stepping stone to higher efforts. He 
fitted for college at Atkinson Academy, 
and later took lessons from a Harvard 
tutor, and attended a summei- school at 
Hebron under Prof. W. K. Harper, of 
Chicago. He began liis work in the 
Master's vineyard at the age of 19 in 
the lowly fields of mission work in 
Boston. He was ordained in May 




Merrill was then engaged in evangels- 
tic work in Maine, and filled pisturat s 
at Hampton and Epsom, N. H. -Com- 
ing to Littleton in 1S9I, lie f.iuiul a 
fruitful field for his active energies. 
He raised money to repair the clmrcli, 
took charge of t'3e work, ra sed I lie 
structure one story and )iut in a good 
vestry with good steam heat and refur- 
nisiied the audience room. Rev. .Mr. 
Merrill married Salzena Merrill, of 
Methuen, Mass., who passed away 
last January, leaving two daughters, 
Agnes and .Addie. 



THE Littleton Courier 
was founded in 1889 by Phincas R. 
Goold and W. F. Andrus. It is largely 
devoted to local interests, is mildly 
Democratic in its political creed, an<l 
in connection with cheap clubbing 
rates has attained a circulation of about 
2000. Mr. Goold is a native of the 
town, an old time printer, and a very 
familiar figure about the streets. He 
is a son of Marquis L. Gould and was 
born in 1^42. He liarned the printers' 



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trade of John 1!. Kodding in the oflice 
of the old Haverhill Republican, and 
suV)seqiiently worked as a journeyman 
at Lebanon, Littleton, Newport, and at 
Lynn, Mass. Since 1864 he has re- 
sided continuously in this town, and 
was *23 years connected with the post- 
oilice either as clerk or postmaster, 
having held the latter office 18 years. 
Me became a resident of Littleton in 
1862 and in '67 married Selvia Dan- 
forth of Lisbon. In 1881, in company 
with B. F. Robinson, Mr. Goold estab- 
lished the Littleton Journal as a Re- 
publican newspaper. It was located 
in the post office building where Mr. 
(tooM had already established a job 
printing business. Mr. Goold has had 
a very busy career and enjoys a very 
wide personal acquaintance in this 
section. 



SOLON L. SIMONDS, POLICEMAN. 
The subject of this sketch, by birth 
and long residence, belongs to Little- 
Ion, but his youth, early manhood and 
military service are identified with 
N'ermont. He was born in 1842. In 
December, 1861, he enlisted in the 8th 
Vermont Infantry, Col. Stephen Thom- 
as, and was with that gallant regiment 
during Butler's Louisiana campaign 
and Bank's Red River expedition, and 
was with Sheridan during the famous 
Shenandoah campaign, being promoted 
through every grade to orderly ser- 
geant, and at Cedar Creek was in 
charge of an advanced picket line, 
which he brought back by a wide de- 
tour, when almost surrounded. After 
a re-enlistment. Sergeant Simonds was 
honorably discharged after nearly four 
years' service. He then bought a 
farm and hotel at Lunenburg in cora- 
](any with his half brother, Lieut. 
George A. Hill. In 1869 he conducted 
a sash and blind business at Lisbon 
seven years, and the same business 
three years at Lancaster. After a tour 
of observation of about six months at 
Leadville and the Black Hills, Mr. 
Simonds came to Littleton in October, 
1S79, and engaged as a jiacker and 
shipping clerk with Iia Parker in the 
glove factory. His failliful services 
were retained in tills cajiacity about 17 



years. He had meanwiiile been in the 
police force at Lisbon, Lancaster, and 
Littleton, and last April was engaged 
as chief of police of Littleton, and 
janitor of the Town building, having 
the sole care of public property to the 
value of about $40,000. During his 
police experience of about 16 years he 
never received a blow, and never but 
once gave one with his club, yet never 
lost an arrested man. Mr. Simonds 
has passed all of the stations and chairs 
of Burns Lodge and attended 1'26 con- 
secutive meetings always on time. He 
is also a member of St. Gerard Com- 
mandery. In politics he is a Republi- 
can. He has one daughter, Mrs. J. L. 




Oiithank, by a first marriage. In 1888 
he married Mrs. Mary E. Hutchinson. 
Mrs. Simonds keeps a choice and well 
selected stock of millinery and fancy 
goods in the Boylston block, and is 
recognized as an experienced and artis- 
tic trimmer. 



SIMPSON'S Variety Store 
is a domestic exposition. Here the 
thrifty housewife can find any of the 
thousand and one articles of con- 
venience and necessity, that save time 
and temper, and at prices that compel 
another call. Simpson keeps almost 
everything from a paper of pins to an 
elegant china set. He has recently re- 
turned from Boston with a full assort- 



ment of household goods, and Christ- 
mas specialties, which will soon gladen 
many a home. He has had the aid of 
his predecessor, Mr. C. J. Willey, in 
the purchase of the goods, which are 
mostly obtained at wholesale jobbers 
prices, and will be sold accordingly. 
In the store he is ably assisted by Mrs. 
Carpenter, who is very familiar with 
the trade. In so extensive and multi- 
farious a stock it is impossible to par- 
ticularize, but we will call special at- 
tention to the five and ten-cent count- 
ers, and to the handsome stock of plain, 
fancy, and antique china. This is 
headquarters for Santa Clans. Mr. 
Simpson is widely and favorably known 
to the traveling public as the former 
popular station agent at Scott's. He 
is a native of West Rumney, N. H., 
where he learned telegraphy in his 
father's store at ten j'ears of age. At 
the age of 14 he became station agent 
at West Rumney, the youngest station 
agent in New England. He was in the 
employ of the railroad companies 16 
years in that capacity, and during that 
time for five different corporations. 
Mr. Simpson bought his present stock 
of goods last April, and the Littleton 
public have learned to appreciate his 
prompt, genial, business like qualities. 



WHITE MOUNTAIN PHARMACY. 
This institution is the oldest drug 
store in town, founded away back in 
1831 bj' Mr. Hodgtnan. It has always 
occupied a prominent place, was suc- 
cessfully conducted many years by 
liobinson Brothers, and is fully main- 
taining its prestige and efficiency under 
the skillful management of the present 
proprietor, Mr. H. K. KenneJ^ It is 
centrally located near the great hotels, 
and the residences of the leading phy- 
sicians, with whose offices it was the 
first, and for a long time the only 
drug store to be connected by tele- 
phone. It is also the telephone ex- 
change of the village. The premises, 
25 by 125 feet, are handsomely fitted 
up, and well stocked with a full line 
of standard goods, which includes pure 
drugs and chemicals, proprietary medi- 
cines, candies, confectionery, cigars, 
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an especially fine stock of perfumes. 
The White Mountain Headache cure 
and White Mountain Cough ('ure, both 
compounded exclusively at this phar- 
macy, are proving their merits. Mr. 
Kenney is a native of Littleton, son of 
L. C. Kenney and grandson of Gcr. 
E. O. Kenney. His mother was Mar- 
tha D., daughter of Col. Cyrus East- 
man. Mr. Kenney was born in 1868, 
and is a graduate of the Littleton High 
School, and the Massachusetts College 
of Pharmacy. In 1885 he entered the 
drug store of F. B. Hatch & Co. as a 
clerk, where he remained four years, 
and later was in a drug store in Taun- 
ton, Mass., two years. Mr. Kenney is 
a registered pharmacist, both in New 
Hampshire and Massachusetts. He 
has an excellent social standing and is 
a member of St. Gerard Commandery 
and is also a 32d degree Mason. He 
has recently completed a beautiful 
residence on Pleasant street that com- 
mands an expansive view of the White 
Mountains. He married in 1895, Liz- 
zie, daughter of R. W. Bailey of Lan- 
caster. 



Wells & Bingham. 

FUNERAL UNDERTAKERS. 

One of the oldest and most widely 
and favorably known establishments 
in this region is that of Wells it Bing- 
ham. Devoting themselves exclusively 
to their undertaking business they have 
equipped their establishment with a 
tine funeral car and undertaker's wagon 
and every convenience pertaining to 
their work. They strive to conduct 
all occasions placed under their charge 
in a gentlemanly and professional 
manner. Capt. B. F.Wells is a native 
of Sugar Hill, Lisbon, but for 25 years 
has been a resident of Littleton. In 
1861 he enlisted in Co. IL, 8th N. H. 
IJegt., as a first lieutenant, and was 
promoted to captain. The regiment 
first saw active service under Gen. B. 
F. Butler in the Louisiana campaign, 
where, at George's Landing, Capt. 
Wells was wounded. He re-enlisted 
in the 1st N. H. heavy artillery, and 
was for a time stationed in the defenses 
at Washington, where he was again 
promoted to be captain, and with his 



company did valiant service in repell- 
ing Early's raid upon the Capital. 
He was honorably discharged witli his 
regiment in September, 1865, and re- 
turning to Lisbon engaged in the car- 
riage business until 187H, when he 
moved to Littleton. For 80 years he 
has made undertaking a specialty. 
When modern embalming was first 
introduced Capt. Wells perfected him- 
self in the art, which he has since suc- 
cessfully practiced. He married Har- 
riett S. Parker of Lisbon, and after 
her death, Ellen M. McKean. He has 
an excellent standing in every relation 
of life. He is a member of Marshall 
Sanders Post, G. A. R., and is treas- 
urer of St. Gerard Commandery, K. T. 
In 1891 Capt. Wells took as a partner 
Mr. Charles F. Bingham. 




Mr. Bingham is a native of Michigan 
and came to Littleton in 1879 at the 
age of 21 years. He was engaged in 
newspaper work in Michigan and also 
on the White Mountain Republic with 
Mr. G. C. Furber. Realizing that the 
undertaking business in the future 
would demand much more of its oper- 
ators and conductors than in the past 
he immediately began to fit himself for 
the general duties of this calling. He 
is a graduate of the Massachusetts Col- 
lege of Embalming and has had exper- 
ience with some of the best embalmers 
of Boston. Mr. Bingham's kindly 
nature and genial personality eminently 



fit him for this profession. He not 
only stands well among his associates 
but ranks high in ^Masonic relations, 
being for two years Master of Burns 
Lodge, ]•'. & A. M., was ]). 1). G. M. 
of this Masonic jurisdiction, and is the 
present Eminent Commander of St. 
Gerard Commandery. He married, in 
1884, Miss Hattie M. Quimby of White- 
field, an accomplished musician and 
instructor. 



C. F. Nutting. 

This great dry goods house is a mer- 
cantile exposition. It occupies com- 
modious and elegant quarters in Union 
Block with about 6UU0 feet of floor 
space, and carries a ?>20,000 stock ; in 
fact, one of the finest and most varied 
outside of the large cities, and six 
clerks are kept actively at work. The 
stock bears evidence of careful selec- 
tion, is exceptionally desirable and 
comprehensive, and "clean," in the 
trade sense, being almost absolutely 
free from old style or unpoimlar goods 
of any kind. Mr. Nutting buys in 
large (luantities, in connection with his 
brother, an extensive merchant at 
Brandon, Vt., securing practically job- 
bers' prices, and offers his goods to his 
customers as low as an equal quality can 
be obtained anywhere in New England. 
He calls special attention to liis varied 
and handsome stock of carpets, drap- 
eries, rugs and mattings, which are 
shown on the second floor. The stock 
of dry goods, dress goods and ladies' 
garments on the first floor is too exten- 
sive for enumeration, and must be seen 
to be appreciated. 

Mr. Nutting was born at Bakersfield, 
and educated at the Bakersfield Acad- 
emy. He enjoyed a valuable experi- 
ence of seven years in the large mer- 
cantile house of E. A. Thomas, at West 
liandolph, Vt., and was two years with 
his brother, W. D. Nutting, at Bran- 
don, Vt. He married Miss Flora New- 
ton, of Randolph, and Littleton became 
their home in January, 1889. Mrs. 
Nutting for several years assisted in 
the store after his purchase from Dow 
Brothers. 

He has more than doubled the vol- 
ume of his trade, which is now one of 



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the largest in tlic state, in the face of 
a close competition. Extendinti his 
thani<s to tlie public for this lihcraj 
patronage, he will strive earnestly to 
deseive and receive a continuance of 
the same. 



W. W. BROWN, 
Optician anil Jeweler. The "down 
casters" have a national reputation as 
early starters and good stayers, and 
Mr. Brown is an excellent type of his 
class. He was born in Bremen, Me., 
in 1859. His grandfather and all his 
uncles were seamen, and the dream of 
his childhood was "a life on the ocean 
wave," but a terrible experience during 
a three days terrific gale, which strewed 
the coast with wrecks and in which 
his good ship barely weathered, deter- 
mined young Brown to be a landsman. 
At the age of 14 he left home and 
went to Massachusetts to challenge 
fortune. Alone and unaided, he took 
the first chance that offered, learned 
the trade of rattan-maker and followed 
it most of the time for ten years, be- 
coming a stockholder and director in a 
corporation. Meanwhile, at the age of 
IS, he began to employ spare time in 
learning the watch-maker's trade, 
which better suited his mechanical 
taste. Some 14 years ago he deter- 
mined to make this his life work, and 
for the past dozen years has been en- 
gaged in this work in the princi|ial 
factories of New England, and thor- 
ougldy familiarized himself with every 
detail and feature ot watch-making. 
He was employed several years as in- 
spctor at the Waltham watch factory. 
He attended all the optical schools in 
Waltham, and received private instruc- 
tion from a distinguished professor of 
optholimics in that city, and for 
the past three years he has taught 
that branch at Waltham, done work 
for the trade, and conducted optical 
work. Owing to ill health there, Mr. 
Brown sought a change of climate, and 
commenced in Littleton last Aj)ril in 
the Ilodgman store with a small but 
well-Selected stock of watches and jew- 
elry. His specialties are optical work 
and fine repairing of watches, and he 
enjoys an excellent and deserved pat- 
ronage. 



Ghorge C. FURBER. 

Tiie editor of the country newspaper, 
v.\u\e commenting on the actions of 
others, is himself also amenable to crit- 
icism. Mr. Furber will pass from un- 
der this ban as unscathed as any one 
who has so long been in the editorial 
harness. He was born in Woodstock, 
Vt., in 1847, and was educated in Can- 
aan Union Academy and Eastman's 
Business College. From 1870 to 1874 
he was one of the editors of the AUe- 
ghan County (Mich.) Democrat. In 
1874 he came to Littleton as editor of 
the White Mountain Republic, and two 
years later married Hattie D., daughter 
of Gen. G. P. Meserve. When Mr. 



principal work since 1893 has been the 
collection and compilation of facts for 
the foitlicoming town history. 




Furber took charge of the paper its list 
was not more than 800, but during the 
next sixteen years it was quadrupled. 
The Kepublic was conservatively Dem- 
ocratic, but took high ground in favor 
of temperance and moral reform. In 
1890 it was merged with the Journal 
under its j)resent style of Beihtblic- 
JouuNAi.. In isyi Mr. Furber, by 
reason of impaired health, sold the 
pa|)er to Willis II. Colby, but the next 
yeai' became business manager of the 
Concord People and Patriot. For a 
dozen years or more he did valuable 
service as recording and corresponding 
secretary of the Littleton Musical As- 
sociation. Since 1894 he has been an 
active member of the board of educa- 
tion of Union School District. His 



NOAH Farr. 
In the heart of the Ammonoosuc val- 
ley, one mile below Littleton, is the 
residence of Noah Farr. It was on 
this farm that the first settlement was 
made within the town limits, elsewhere 
described. Mr. Farr was born on 
Farr Hill, Littleton, in 1836, a son of 
Gilman and Philena Allen Farr. When 
18 years old, he moved with his fath- 
er's family to this farm, which has 
since been his home. He worked with 
his father until 30 years of age, and 
then, in company with his brother-in- 
law, purchased the farm. Two years 
later he bought out this interest, and 
has since been sole proprietor of this 
handsome 225-acre farm, of which .iC 
acres is mowing and tillage, most of 
this being Ammonoosuc meadow of 
great fertility. Dairying is Mr. Farr's 
specialty. He was for a time engaged 
in retailing milk in the village, when 
he kept as many as 30 cows. At pres- 
ent he is selling cream to the White 
Mountain Creamery, and has reduced 
his number of cows. He also has a 
number of fine horses. For the past 
few years he has had a number of sum- 
mer boarders, for which his hand- 
some home is nicely equipped. He 
has a new barn 47 by 90 feet, with en- 
tire cellar. House, stable and base- 
ment are all supplied with pure run- 
ning water. There is also a shop which 
probably contains the best equipment 
of mechanical tools possessed by any 
farmer in the state, and in which Mi-. 
Farr spends much time both pleasantly 
and profitably. This is one of the best 
sets of farm buildings in the country. 
Mr. Farr is an admirer of Ilolstein 
stock, and was the first to introduce 
this favorite milk producing breed in- 
to Littleton, and by the purchase of a 
fine l)looded bull has greatly improved 
the stock of the neighborhood. He 
married first Mary B. Griggs, of this 
town, and after her death was united 
to Sarah, daughter of Jedediah Farm- 
er, of Bethlehem. Thej' have two sons, 
Artiiur N., of West Milan, and Albert 
L., living at home. Mr. FaiT is a man 



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of grciit industry and iiiactical good 
sense. lie has lor many years been 
identified with the Grange, as treasurer 
of both local and state bodies. He has 
also been treasurer of the town school 
district. He is a Republican, and in 
religious faith a Congregationalist. 



M. D. COBLEIGH 
Comes of good, staunch Littleton stock. 
His father was Ashbell W. and his 
grandfather, for whom he was named, 
was Marshall D. Cobleigh,a well-known 
former merchant and deputy sheriff of 
this town. His mother was Hannah, 
mother of Rev. Hugh Montgomery, a 
staunch temperance worker and preach- 
er. A farmer bred boy, Mr. Cobleigh 
soon decided that he could best fulfill 
his misson of doing good by re-produc- 
ing the luiman face divine. Accord- 
ingly, in 1888 he commenced work in 
the studio of George H. Aldrich, and 
at his death purchased and has since 
conducted the business. Mr. Cobleigh 
is on the alert to appropriate and use 
for his patrons all of the latest im- 
provements in art. He is an accommo- 
dating gentleman, and mixes a due 
proportion of the milk of human kind- 



ness with his chemicals, and usually 
secures a comfortable and pleasant look 
on the faces of his victims. Mr. Cob- 
leigh has built up a thriving business, 
and his collection evinces good 
workmanship. He makes a specialty 
of carbonette photographs. He has 



taken an active interest in puV)lic af- 
fairs, es[)ecially in tcm]>erance work. 
He has been chairman of the board of 
supervisors since 1894, and is in jioli- 
tics a Republican. 




Clough brothers. 

Clough Brothers conduct the Cohas- 
hauke Cafe, furnishing warm meals at 
all hours. In the room under their 
salesroom is the bakery where the 
bread, pastry, and a thousand and one 
goodies are made "just like mother 
used to cook." They employ a skilled 
cook, make home-made candies in the 
winter and cater to balls and parties at 
all times. They also keep canned 
goods and light groceries, and as their 
room is open later than the others this 
is a real convenience to the public. 
They strive to lighten the burdens of 
housewives in warm weather, and sup- 
ply daily about 180 loaves of bread. 
Both Charles C. and Frank L. Clough 
have been connected in the past with 
the Republic-Jouuxal, and formerly 
conducted the job department of that 
establishmeut. They have been in the 
bakeiy business since July, 1895. 

Mrs. F. L. Clough conducts a milli- 
nery business in the Snowden Build- 
ing. She has had five years experi- 
ence and is securing her share of 
patronage by her good taste and 
close attention to business. 



HON. Edgar aldrich. 
The bar of Littleton has been not- 
able for nearly half a century, and 
one of its ablest exponents is Judge 
Edgar Aldrich. He is a native of 
Pittsburg, born in 1848, the son of 
Kphraim C. and Adeline Ilaynes 
Aldrich. His academic training was 
iil)tained at Colebrook Academy. 
He entered upon the study of law 
with Ira A. Ramsey of that town, 
and graduated from the law depart- 
ment of the University of Michi- 
gan and was adtuitted to the bar 
at Colebrook at the August term, ISOS. 
He remained there in practice until 
1881, when he located at Littleton, 
where he has since resided. He was 
solicitor of Coos county from October 
10, 187-2, to June 4, 1S79, with the ex- 
ception of the interim from '74 to '76. 



He was a representative from Littleton 
in 1SS.5, and speaker of the house. In 
1891 he was numinated by President 
Harrison to be judge of the district 
court, on the unanimous recommenda- 
tion of the bar, and has developed an 




exceptiimal aptitude fur the duties of 
his station. This is fully attested in 
his frequent service in the important 
litigation that finds what may be termed 
the legal storm center in the L^nited 
States court at Boston. Judge Aldrich 
has long been recognized as a jtublic 
speaker of unusual ability, and has de- 
livered several notable addresses upon 
special and anniversary occasions, on 
legal and historical subjects. In 1891 
he received the honorary degree of 
Master of Arts from Dai tmouth Col- 
lege. Judge Aldrich was united in 
1872 to Louise M. Remiek. They have 
two children : Florence M., a graduate 
of Andover Academy, and Ephraim 
Fred, a student in Dartmouth College. 



BINGHAM, Mitchell & Batchellor 
Constitute a legal triumvirate in which 
each member contributes some peculiar 
mental resource or aptitude, and the 
firm is widely recognized as one of the 
strongest of the New Hampshire bar. 
Hon. Harry Bingham, the "grand old 
man" of New Ham])shire, after 
more than half a century of distin- 
guislied practice, is now devolving the 
more active labors upon his juniors, 
who are well qualified to maintain the 
prestige of the firm. 

Hon. Harry Bingham was l)orn in 
Concord, Vt., March 30, 18'J1, being 



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third son of Wancn aiitl I.iu'y Whei'l- 
er Bingham, lie attended the publie 
schools of his native town and tilted 
for college at Lyndon, Vt., academy, 
lie entered Dartmouth College at the 
age of 18, and graduated with credit in 
1843. He enjoyed the formative ex- 
perience of teaching district schools^ be- 
fore and during his college course. He 
began reading law with Daniel Hib- 
bard of Concord, continued with Geo- 
Cahoon of Lyndon and completed with 
Hon. Harry Hibbard of Bath, another 
distinguished son of Concord. He was 
admitted to the bar in the spring of 
184(5, and the next fall settled in Little- 
ton. His career during the past half a 
century has been a mutual heritage of 
renown to Vermont, his native state, 
and Now Hampshire, the state of his 
adoption. He was alone in ■ practice 
until 18.')2, when he formed a partner- 
ship with his younger brother, George 
A. Bingham, afterwards twice a justice 
of the supreme court of the state, 
which continued for about 22 years. 




HON. IIARKV lilNullAM. 

Since that time Mr. Bingham has had 
associated with him several young men 
who have received their legal education 
in his office. The piesent firm is Bing- 
ham, Mitchell it Batchellor, the junior 
partners being W. H. Mitchell and A. 
S. Batchellor, both able lawyers in 
their several spheres. Space forbids 
mention here of any of the important 
cases of both civil and criminal prac- 
tice in which Mr. Bingham has been 
engaged. In brief it may be said that 



he has been connected usually in the 
defense with all the capital cases tried 
in Nortlierii New Hampshire during 
his professional career, and his services 
and counsel have been sought in Ver- 
monlin the federal courts. Mr.Bingham 
has always been an uncompromising 
Democrat. He first represented Little- 
ton in 18t)l, and soon became the un- 
questioned leader of his party on the 
tloor of the house, a position which he 
has steadily held during his legislative 
experience of sixteen terms in the low- 
er house, and two terms in the senate. 
He was the nominee of his party for 
congress in 1865 and in 1867. In 1870- 
72-79-83-85-87 and 89 he was the 
choice of the Democracy for United 
States senator, a position for which his 
strong mental endorsement and ripe 
scholarship eminently fitted him. He 
was nominated by Gov. Weston i n 
1874 for chief justice, but certain cor- 
porate influences prevented his con- 
firmation by the council. He has re- 
presented his state in National Demo- 
cratic conventions for more than 25 
years. In the last campaign he sup- 
ported Palmer and Buckner and was 
chairman of the convention to ratify 
their nomination. He has, notwith- 
standing the exacting duties of his pro- 
fession, been a wide and judicious 
reader. This habit with a capacious 
memory has made him a man of exten- 
sive information and mature culture, 
with liberal and philosophic views. ■ 

Hon. W. H. Mitchell needs no card 
of introduction to the people of North- 
ern New Hampshire. He is one of the 
half a score of Vermonters who have 
found a congenial field of legal effort 
in Littleton. He was born in Wheel- 
ock, Vt., in 1856. His academic train- 
ing was obtained principally at Derby, 
Vt, academy and the Littleton High 
School. He began reading law with 
Hon. Harry Bingham in 1877 a n d 
three years later was admitted to the 
bar and became a member of the firm. 
As a lawyer Mr. Mitchell has risen to 
the level of his rare opportunities and 
has contributed his full (juota to the 
success of the firm. He has shown ex- 
cellent judgment in the application of 
legal principles to special cases and 
conscientious thoroughness and abilitv 



in preparaing cases for trial. This 
characteristic was especially marked 
in liis very at-ceptable service as Coun- 
ty Solicitor. Since 1888 he has served 
as a trustee of the State Normal 
school. For many years he has been 
the efficient chairman of the school 
board. His interest in educational af- 
airs expressed itself in the New Hamp- 
shire Senate bv the introduction of the 




HON. WILLIAM H. MITCHELL 

bill for free books which was enacted 
largely by his efforts. He there did 
yeoman service for the Normal School 
and the Soldier's Home. Mr. Mitchell 
married Delia, daughter of Hon. Ed- 
ward F. Bingham, and their beautiful 
home is on South street. 

The natural ancestry of Hon. Albert 
Stillman Batchellor can be traced to 
Thomas and Mary Allerton Cushman, 
of the Mayflower, and there were sev- 
eral representatives of the family in 
the llevolutionary army. His mother 
was Mary Jane Smith, of Bennington, 
Vt., and his father Stillman Batchellor, 
a soldier of 1812 and a life-long resi- 
dent of Bethlehem and Littleton. The 
subject of our sketch was born in Beth- 
lehem in 1850, the youngest of eight 
children. His father died while he 
was but a child, leaving the family to 
wrest a subsistence from the stubborn 
soil of a Bethlehem farm. Mr. Batch- 
ellor inherited an active, buoyant tem- 
perament, and an insatiable love of 
learning, and bent every energy to the 



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attainment of a liberal education, lie 
graduated from Dartmoutli College 
with credit in the class of IST'i, and 
immediately entered the law office of 
Hon. Harry Bingham ; was admitted to 
tlie bar of Grafton county in 1S75, and 
soon became a member of the present 
well-known firm. More than twenty 
years association with Mr. Bingham, 
as pupil and partner, is a voucher for 
a good lawj'er, and Mr. Batchellor has 
never discredited his credentials. lie 
possesses a quick, sure grasp of the 
salient points of law and evidence, to- 
gether with a (juaint humor and ready 
repartee which at once illustrates and 
brightens the tedious details of the 
dullest case. As a result of natural 
aptitude, superior training, a large ex- 
perience and an abundance of strong 
common sense, Mr. Batchellor stands 
today among the leading lawyers of 
northern New Hampshire. In politics 
he has achieved an enviable reputation 
and ranks with the younger leaders of 
the Democratic party in the state, and 
has modestly and worthily borne a lib- 




HON. A. S. BATCHELLOR. 

eral share of such honors as the party 
has had to bestow. He was county 
solicitor two years ; represented Little- 
ton in the legislature three terms ; was 
a member of the governor's council in 
1887-8, and was for several years an 
able member of the board of trustees 
of the state library, which he recently 
resigned. In local offices he has ably 



and faithfully discharged his <luties, 
and his influence has been felt in edu- 
cational matters in this town, and as an 
active alumnus of Dartmouth College. 
Notwithstanding the great demands of 
his professional and public life, he has 
devoted much time to literary pursuits, 
becoming especially interested and well 
versed in the early history of the town 
and state. He has served Burns Lodge 
as W. M., has been D. D. G. M. of the 
Masonic district, is a Knight Templar 
and has attained the .32d degree, A. S. 
R. Withal, he is one of the most so- 
ciable and companionable of men. In 
1880 he married Miss Harriett A. Cope- 
land, and their hearth is shared and 
brightened by two sons and a daughter. 



\ipon the sluiiiji in successive cam- 
paigns have l)een highly appreciated. 
He marrieil .Miss Mary S. Pendleton of 



HON. James w. Remick. 
Hon. J. W. Remick is a son of L. 
R. and Sophia Cushman Remick. His 
father was widely known as a land- 
lord. The Cushmans of Caledonia 
County, were endowed with strong 
mentality and several of Mr. Remick's 
uncles won distinction at the bar. J. 
W. Remick was educated in the com- 
mon schools, and at nineteen years of 
age began the study of law under B.F. 
Chapman, of Clockville, N. Y. Later 
he was a student in the office of Aid- 
rich & Parsons, at Colebrook, and fo 
Bingham & Aldrich, at Littleton. He 
graduated from the Michigan Univer- 
sity law school in lSS-2, and was soon 
admitted to the bar at Concord, N. IL 
He was two years in practice in Cole- 
brook, and subsequently in the employ 
of Aldrich & Remich at Littleton. In 
1886 he formed a partnership with 
Hon. Ossian Ray, of Lancaster, and 
opened an office for the firm at Little- 
ton. In 1890, at the age of thirty, he 
was appointed United States district 
attorney for New Hampshire, the 
youngest incumbent of that position in 
the history of the state. Mr. IJeniick 
has won the respect of his associates, 
a7id shown himself a thorough student, 
a judicious counsellor, and an eloquent 
advocate. A man of literary tastes, lie 
is an omniscient reader, and has won 
an enviable reputation on the lecture 
platform. Mr. Remick is an able ex- 
ponent of the principles and policies of 
the Republican party, and his efforts 







Hartford, Conn., in 1888 and they have 
a little daughter, Gladys, six years of 
age. 



HON. Daniel C. Remich. 

Daniel C. Remich is one of the most 
aggressive and original characters on 
the recent stage of public life in Little- 
ton and hasfigured soprominentlj'inre- 
cent public movements, that an extend- 
ed sketch of his career is hardly nec- 
essary. He was born in Ilardwick, 
Vt., in 18.52. His earlier educational 
advantages were limited, and for near- 
ly four years after he was eighteen 
years of age he worked in the cotton 
mills at Lawrence, Mass. In 1875 he 
began to read law in the office of Edgar 
Aldrich, in Colebrook, and continued 
liis studies in the offices of Aldrich and 
Parsons, and of J. II. Dudley, in that 
town. He graduated from the law 
sciiool o f Michigan University i n 
March, 1878, and the following April 
was admitted to the Coos bar. After 
about four years practice at Colebrook 
as a member of the firm of Dudley & 
Remick, he came to Littleton as the 
junior member of the firm of Bingjiam, 
Aldrich «fc Remich. In February, 1879, 
Mr. Remich married Miss Belle Lover- 
in of Colebrook, and after her death he 
married Lizzie M., daughter of B. W. 
Kilburn. The strong characteristics of 
D. C. Remich of strong common sense 
and indomitable courage and energy 
have been manifested in every field of' 
effort he has entered. During the past 



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lialf dozen years he has very largely 
withdrawn from aelive legal practice, 
ami devoted his attention to the stere- 
oscopic view business, and the care of 
real estate interests in town. lie is 
most widely known in connection with 




tile iiiforcement of the priihiliitorj' law 
and his able efforts in 1894, as a mem- 
ber of the legislature, to secure more 
stringent temperance legislation. His 
name is also identified with several im- 
portant puV)lic enterprises, notably 
with the adoption of a system of street 
improvements, which he championed 
in the face of the most <letermined op- 
position. 



HARRY M. MORSE, ESQ., 
.Mlhough a recent resident, is not un- 
known to the people of Littleton. He 
offers as a hostage of his loyalty and 
good conduct, the fact that he married 
a Littleton girl, Helen, daughter of 
Jolin N. Oakes. Mr. Morse was born 
in Haverhill in 1859, son of John F. 
and Susan Johnson IVIorse. His boy- 
hood was spent upon the farm and in 
attendance on the common schools of 
Haverhill and Lisbon. His law stud- 
ies, after one year with John L. P'osfer, 
were completed by two years with the 
late Judge Edward D. Kand, of Lisbon. 
He was admitted to the bar in ISSO, 
and soon after formed a partnership 
with Judge Rand which continued till 
the latter's death in 1885, when Mr. 
Morse succeeded to the law business 
of the firm. In 1881 he formed a jiart- 



nershi]! with (Jeorge F. Morris, and a 
year later sold his interest to the latter. 
In 1895 he visited California on a tour 
of observation, and remained until last 
Maj'. He has opened an office in Op- 
era Block, and will now resume the 
active practice of his profession. Mr. 
Morse is a genial, companionable gen- 
tleman, a devoted and intelligent stud- 
ent of literature, with good natural 
gifts. He is a lover of out-door exer- 
cise, an excellent horseman and a good 
judge of horses. In politics a stalwart 
l^epnblican, he has given active and 
valuable service to his party, but has 
never sought nor accepted the rewards 
of oHicial life. 



THE BELLOWS FAMILY. 
For nearly three quarters of a centu- 
ry the name of Bellows has been prom- 
inently and honorably associated with 
the hg;il, mercantile, manufacturing 
and public interests of Littleton. Judge 
Henry A. Bellows was the most dis- 
tinguished member of the earlier bar 
of Littleton until his removal in 1850 
to the wider field of Concord, where 
he was soon appointed to the bench 
and eventually became chief justice. 
William Joseph Bellows was born July 
3, 1817, in the town of Rockingham, 
"N't., on his father's farm on the Connec- 
ticut river. He has a vivid recollec- 
tion of the burning of his father's four 
large barns, which were struck by 
lightning, when filled with the bounte- 
ous crops of the 400-acre farm, a mem- 
ory impressed still more deeply by the 
great pecuniary loss and especially from 
the fact that his father then received 
injuries which resulted in his early 
death. In 1831, as a youth of fourteen, 
he came to Littleton, where he resided 
about a year with his brother, Hon. 
Henry A. Bellows, when he went to 
Springfield, Vt., as a clerk, and in 1834 
went to Boston, before he was twenty 
years old becoming head salesman in 
the large wholesale house of Blanchard 
& Blodgett at a salary of SlflOO a year. 
After several years of valuable experi- 
ence and extensive acquaintance, he 
returned in 1841 to Littleton, which 
has since been his home. He immedi- 
ately began the study of law with his 



brother, and was admitted to the bar 
i>f (irafton ci>unty in 1844. lie then 
entered into partnership with his broth- 
er, which was continued with a very 
large ])ractice until the latter moved 
to Concord in 1850. He was married 
in 1847 to Caroline I., daughter of 
Sani]ison Bullard, of Concord. After 
his brother's removal, he continued in 
practice alone until the late Hon. John 
Farr, a student in his office, became a 
law partner and remained until 1860. 
Mr. Bellows continucMl in practice sev- 
eral years longer, though much of his 
time was absorbed by other important 
undertakings. In 1861 he became 
owner and editor of the People's Jour- 
nal which, during the Rebellion, was 
uncompromisingly devoted to the en- 
couragement of patriotism and the sup- 
port of the administration. He was 
appointed postmaster of Littleton in 
1861, unsolicited on his part, a position 
which he held seven years. He has 
been identified as a director, clerk or 
president of several mining companies, 
all at one time important enterprises. 




William J. Bellows. 
lie lias served in the State militia on 
tlie staff of Gen. (Tuernsey, with the 
rank of major. He was largely in- 
strumental in ])ronioting the giowth of 
Littleton by a fortunate pureliase of 50 
acres of land, then unoccupied but now 
containing a large number of fine resi- 
dences and the Littletun Hitili ScIkkiI 



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Imilding, many of which were erected 
by himself and ]iartners. He was a 
member of the school board eleven 
years, its president eight years, and 
while the location of the school build- 
ing was under consideration, with a 
l>rospect of delay, he purchased the 60 
acres off-hand and deeded the desired 
site to the committee. About 186.5 he 
became a partner with W. W. How- 
Land and Henry L. Tilton in the lum- 
ber business at .\pthnrp, and Victory, 
\'t. In 1868 he became a mercantile 
partner with Henry L. Tilton and 
Charles W. Brackett, under the firm 
title of H. L. Tilton & Co. They con- 
ducted very extensive operations in ad- 
dition to a large mercantile business, 
and among other things acquired and 
sold a tract of timber-land of about 
23,000 acres in tlie vicinity of the White 
Mountains. From 1870 to 1878 the 
style of the firm was liellows, Brackett 
it Co. On the dissolution of the latter 
firm, Mr. Bellows, in conned ion with 
his son, William H., established their 
|)resent meicantile house of Bellows 
& Son, which is one of the most wide- 



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ly known and successful mercantile 
enterprises in this section. It is, in 
fact, a department store, the principal 
features being men's clothing and fur- 
nishings, and house furnishings. It is 
also headquarters for carpets and the 
sale of standard bicycles. 

The junior partner of Bellows & 
Son, William H. Bellows, for the last 
twelve years has been the active man- 



ager of the firm's business. He is a 
director in the Littleton National and 
Savings Banks, has been many years a 
member of the school board of educa- 
tion and of the Littleton board of 
trade. He is also a member of Burns 
Lodge, A. F. and A. M., No. 66, and 
Saint Gerard Conunandery, Knight 
Templars, and is a 3"2d degree Mason, 
A. A. S. Rite, N. M. J., holding the of- 
fice of M. E. Senior Grand Warden of 
Washington Council Princes of Jeru- 
salem, of this town. He was elected a 
representative from this town to the 
New Hampshire legislature of 1897-8, 
and was appointed chairman of the 
committee on banks. 

In 1883, William H. and George S. 
Bellows acquired the stereoscopic view 
business which was established by F. 
G. Weller, and have carried on the 
same extensively under the style of the 
Littleton View Co., George S. Bellows 
being the manager. 

Mr. Bellows and his sons are thor- 
oughly identified and actively interest- 
ed in all helpful public enteiprises, and 
are universally esteemed and respected 
by the community. 



with all the modern improvements 
wiiich are expected in a first-class ho- 
tel. Frank Thayer, with the advan- 
tages of heredity and environment, and 
with twenty years experience, is fully 



THAYER'S Hotel. 

There is probably no other hosteli y in 
northern New H mpshire whose fame 
is so widely established with two gen- 
erations of the traveling public as 
Thayer's Hotel. The hotel was erect- 
ed and the business established nearly 
half a century ago by Henry L. Thayer, 
who came here as an active young man 
from Danville, Vt. 3Ir. Thayer was 
an attractive and original character, an 
ideal landlord of the old school, of such 
kindly and paternal manners that he 
was familiarly called " Dad," and his 
personality and that of his amiable wife 
were potent factors in making Littleton 
the Mecca for thousands of tourists 
and travelers. He represented the 
town in the assembly. The manage- 
ment of the hotel has been liberal and 
progressive, readily adapting itself to 
the changing sentiments and conditions 
of modern life, yet always maintaining 
the early home-like cordiality and hos- 
pitality which anticipates every want. 
The hotel has been repeatedly re-fur- 
nished and repaired, and is provided 




maintaining the prestige and traditions 
of this famous hostelry. He is ably 
assisted by the popular clerk, Charlie 
Andrus, and a well-trained corps of 
waiters. The bill of fare is seasonable 
and well selected, the cuisine is of high 
and uniftirm excellence, and the table 
service attentive and accurate. The 
hotel is centrally located on Main 
street, fronted by handsome residences 
and expansive lawfts, and commands a 
beautiful view of the Ammonoosuc val- 
ley and the mountains from many of 
its seventy-five guest rooms. A well- 
kept livery, barber's saloon and prin<i- 
pal stores in town are within elbow 
touch of the guests. Very few travel- 
ers enter the gateway of the White 
Mountains without spending some time 
at Thayer's Hotel, and it has been a 
factor in establishing the prosperity of 
Littleton. 



THE LITTLETON HOUSE. 
This hotel is one of the familiar land 
marks of the town, is owned by Hon. 
D. 0. Reinich, and conducted by Mr. 
and Mrs. J. W. Gray. It contains "27 
rooms, is centrally located, and re- 
ceives a handsome local patronat;e of a 
score or more of regular guesis. While 
not aspiring to the pretence of being a 
first-class hotel, it is a quiet, home 
like, well kept house, with an excellent 
bill of fare, and good room and table 
service. The prices are so reasonable 



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and tlu' soivico so uniformly satisfac- 
tory, that it receives a considerable 
transient i)atronage. ]\[rs. <Tray, nee 
p]niily Betlell, of Jefferson, lias the 
nianatcemcnt of the Littleton House, 
and is a pleasant landlady. Mr. Gray 
is a native of Jefferson, a veteran of 
the late civil war, and a member of the 
14th New Hampshire regiment. Tie 
enlisted in August ISttl, took part in 
the Banks Louisiana campaign, and 
was with Sheridan in the valley and in 
(.leorgia campaign. He was four times 
wounded, but never entered the hospi- 
tal and was honorably discharged after 
more than three years of faithful ser- 



and six regular freights. I'nlikc many 
])assenger stations, it outlooks tidy 
homes, elegant residences and well-ke|it 
lawns. Both the passenger and freight 
depots are handsome and well equipped 
and Depot Master F. E. Wadleigh 
keeps everything in apple pie order. 
He is ably assisted by R. H. Harris, 
freight clerk ; George P. Gonyer, bag- 
gage master ; a messenger boy ; and a 
spare hand during the summer season, 
while Mrs. Wadleigh assists in the tel- 
egraphing and other routine work of 
the office. The business of the station 
is very extensive, the receipts being 
from $70,000 to $75,000 a year. 



\t. His father. B. F. Wadleigh, was 
a highly respected citizen, a represent- 
ative, aTid for many years prior to his 
death, town clerk. His mother, nee 
Elvira Chase, a descendent of one of 
the oldest fanulies, is a cai)able ami es- 
teemed lady, and still discharges the 
duties of town clerk. Eugene began 
to learn telegraphy at West Concord 
with Hon. S. E. Grout, and was then 
operator at Wing Road about a year 
and a half. After pursuing a course 
at the Foughkeepsie Business College, 
and some months practice at the Lit- 
tleton station, he went to Bethleiicm 
Junction as operator and remained 




vice. He is a carpenter and joiner by 
trade and for about ten years has been 
continuously in the employ of Hon. 
D. C. Kemi( h. Mrs. Gray is assisted 
in tlie matiagcmcnt of the hotel by her 
daugiiter, Mrs. \Varren Gregorj'. Mrs. 
Gray is social, active and thorough- 
ly conversant with all the details of 
hotel management. 



yHE STATION. 

Littleton station is one of the most 
important ])oints this side of Concord, 
and especially during the summer sea- 
son is a scene of bustling activity with 
its fourteen well-filled passenger trains 



THE LITTLETON STATION. 

F. Eugene wadleigh. 
The position of depot master is one 
of the most respon- 
sible and exacting. 
I This official must 

I^L^ needs be careful, 

jHHp methodical, alert, 

^^ agreeable, self-pos- 

sessed and absolute- 
ly lionest, <|ualities 
which will win suc- 
cess in any busi- 
ness career. A 
long accpiaintaince with the subject of 
this sketch justilies the statement that 
Eugene Wadleigh possesses these qual- 
ities. He is a native of West Concord, 




there five years. He then^iilled the 
position of ticket agent and freight 
clerk at Plymouth two years and a 
half, and in May, 1S91, was promoted 
to his jiresent responsible ])osition. It 
is evident that the management of the 
road are aware that "the best goods are 
sometimes jjut up in small jiackages." 
Jn May, 1S91, :\Ir. Wadleigh married 
Miss Lillian May Adams, who is well 
known as the genial and accomplished 
o])erator. Mr. Wadleigh has (diarge 
of both the passenger station and the 
freight otiicc, and is one of the busiest 
men in town, especially so in the sum- 
mer, when his duties keep him from 
early morninij; till near midnight. 






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